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“At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.”

“We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.”

World May Stills Hard Done Reality Faces Left Voice Cities Lord Practicals Obedience Loud Tone Melody Rejoice Organs Crowns Harmonious True Faith City Of God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.”

Men World Art Practicals Heat Necks Agony Grammar Spelling

Book:American Language Supplement 2

Source: American Language Supplement 2

“I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!”

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Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance”

People Long Doe Made I Can Matter Loses Race Benefits Importance Patience Clean Practicals This Life Dirty

Book:Science & education

Source: Science & education

“Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.”

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Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”

Men May Has Beens Soul Hard Body Might Dies Lost Nations Vision Practicals Hamilton

Author:James Truslow Adams

“Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.”

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Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.”

Thinking Heart Long Disease Doctors Scientist Medical Practicals Physicians Heart Disease

Author:Robert Jarvik

“If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Government Purpose Asks Natural Answers Judging Practicals Ask Me Competent Natural Law Free Government

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”

Men Way Results Poet Practicals

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.”

Men World Ends Hard Lasts Three Century Possibility Discipline Moon Machines Surface Practicals Cycles Barren Coming To An End

Book:The Culture of Cities

Source: The Culture of Cities

“A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.”

Firsts Different Loss Mark Plant Practicals Quarters Globes Glances

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.”

Wells Careers Comedy Practicals

Author:Bob Newhart

“The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.”

People Reality Seems Differences Ability Class Effects Practicals Desirable Ability To See Specialness

Book:The Liberal Imagination

Source: The Liberal Imagination

“Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.”

Book Morality Complicated Practicals Gestures

Author:Robert Bolt

“There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.”

“[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.”

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.”

“To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.”

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Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.”

“The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.”

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Author:Robert Burchfield

“The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.”

“I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.”

Thinking World Children Sometimes Whole Remember Imagination Religious Practicals Educated Imaginative Synagogue Worlds Apart

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.”

Made Character Decision Practicals

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.”

People Problem Can Do Talent Direct Practicals

Author:John Sayles

“Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.”

Stills Country Facts Running Kids Age Political Turns Process Levels Brain Study Practicals Civics Political Power

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.”

Humans Important Government Interest Practicals

Book:THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD

Source: THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD

“Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.”

May Use Answers Study Goes On Findings Research Gains Appreciate Ultimate Lifetime Financial Seeking Practicals Obscure Unseen Usefulness Investigators Ultimate Power

Author:Eugenie Clark

“Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.”

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Book:Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi

Source: Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi

“In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.”

Two Self Individual Social Consciousness Mark Practicals Self Consciousness

Book:History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation

Source: History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation

“I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.”

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Author:Ally Carter

“I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.”

Ifs Knows Different Energy Fun Jokes My Friends Practicals Having Fun Bubbles New Friends Outgoing Practical Joke

Author:Eric Dickerson

“Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.”

Ifs Should Looks Beautiful Pieces Practicals Garage Basements Storage

Author:Thom Filicia

“My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.”

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Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.”

Ends Life Is Practice Practicals

Author:Samuel Alexander

“When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.”

Facts Process Memories Practice Obvious Practicals Related Speculation Explicit

Author:Samuel Alexander

“Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.”

Mind Ends Science Individual Force Innovation Curiosity Driving Practicals Driving Force

Book:The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs

Source: The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs

“The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.”

“For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.”

Science Principles Complexes Contrary Practicals Breaking Down Scientific Method Composites

Book:Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

“... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.”

Men Way Made Reason Enough Body Hands Purpose Wonderful Impossible Movement Machines Regard Practicals Organs Hands Of God Contingency

Author:Rene Descartes

“The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.”

Body Situation Events Practicals Entity Coping

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.”

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.”

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Author:John Frankenheimer

“I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.”

Ifs Book Able Literature Source Internet Practicals Locals Email Bookshops Lifelines Practical Things

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“The Dutch are a very practical people.”

People Practicals Dutch

Author:Famke Janssen

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