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“Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.”

Ifs Humans Force Process Existence Practice Fields Development Revolutionary Contradiction Progressive Human Existence Siding New Processes

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.”

Ifs Practice Disease Approach Medicine Treated Cures Usual

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.”

Men Should Mind Two Certain Practice Century He Man Expression Demand Essentials Errors Composition Smooth Restraint Rhyme Freedom Of Expression Precedent Spirited Stimulation Employing

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.”

Years Lasts Used Practice Five Months Harder Posts Ministers Five Years Prime Prime Minister Last Five Years

Author:Shinzo Abe

“Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.”

Doe Real Philosophy Happens Today Common Behinds Practice Cases Intention Resistance Justification Skip Real Ones

Book:Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords

Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords

“"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!”

“It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.”

Book Matter Common Class Practice Judging Reader Easier Critics Determine Superficial

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Opportunity Given Sound Practice Successful Havens Tolerance Slap

Author:Mel Gibson

“There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.”

Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”

Knows Two Earth Lasts Form Order Love Is Steps Practice Fairs Essence Absolutes Notion Sake Essence Of Beauty Symposium

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.”

Wells Heaven Practice Kindness

Author:Jack Kerouac

“[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”

Humans Quality Principles Practice Track Consistency Right Track Human Qualities

Book:The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...

Source: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...

“As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.”

Games Practice Adults Concerned Mark Contradiction Cooperation Mentality Mystical Constraints Marble Egocentric

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.”

Matter Spiritual Understanding Practice Century Explanation Primitive Savages Twentieth Century Englishmen

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.”

Feels Trying Long Universe Energy Understanding Simple Behinds Practice Clear Events Creatures Beats Bones Cute Sensations Multiplicity

Author:Alan Watts

“Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.”

Sports Pleasure Practice Stew

Author:Philip Massinger

“There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.”

Littles Law Imagination Natural Practice Clear Ears Sensitive Dependent Composition Acquaintance Aptitude Rhetorical Clear Head

Book:Philosophy of Style: An Essay

Source: Philosophy of Style: An Essay

“It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.”

Should Kind Whole Faces Practice Industry Capitalism British

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.”

Made Play Facts Rooms Class Practice Four Fields Building Taught Source Wall Garden Direct Obvious Rational Museums Application Workshops Nursery Formality Four Walls

Author:Robert Owen

“Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.”

Way Should Party Practice Democracy Discipline Members Democratic Laissez Faire Ultras

Author:Mao Zedong

“We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.”

Should Helping Problem Principles Practice Achieve Mass Method Solve Liberation Propaganda

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.”

Ifs Attention Practice Theory Spending Practicals Theoretical Practical Things

Author:Donald Knuth

“Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings.”

Needs Humans Mean Different Beautiful Values Human Beings Practice Share Circumstances Fellows Democratic Reach Out Solidarity Freedom Of Thought Human Needs Beautiful Words

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.”

Wish Practice Righteousness

Author:Brigham Young

“I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Wells Might Young Literature Responsibility Practice Bears Becoming Criticism Wings Heavy Critical Absurd Flight Abstract Wet Inventor Nests Avant Garde Sowing Beaks Flapping

Author:Louis Aragon

“Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.”

World Kind Persons Jesus Christ Christianity Practice Movement Jesus Christ Miracle Institutions Mere Doctrine Organized Ethical Schemes Descending

Book:The Character of Jesus

Source: The Character of Jesus

“It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."”

Thinking World Should Firsts Ideas Facts Language Existence Practice Materials Manifest

Author:Vaclav Havel

“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.”

People Wells May Problem Sound My Own Practice Middle Century Bases Decades Psychological Chiefs Emptiness Surprising Colleagues Twentieth Century Clinicals Psychiatric

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.”

Church Practice Honor One Day Six Gods Will Preaching Inconsistent

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.”

People Writing Art Important Easy Practice Letters Phones Valuable I Realized Treasure Pity Eras Historian Email Phone Calls Fax Handwritten Letters

Book:I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

Source: I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”

Ends Political Practice Danger Function Activism Reach Out Representation Surrogates

Author:Angela Davis

“Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.”

Happens Reading Literature Process Practice Reader Bookshelves

Author:Terry Eagleton

“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .”

Literature Social Answers Deals Attention Practice Objects Theory Needed Shapes Criticism Genre Aesthetic Bent Systematic Anatomy Literary Theory Literary Genre

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.”

Body My Own Practice Identity Ancient Conviction Stubbornness

Book:The collected poems of Yvor Winters

Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters

“Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being its theory intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts themselves appear false and negative.”

Firsts States Facts Light Given Practice Conditions Theory Ought Negative Structure Critical Recognition Tension Denied Concrete

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man.”

Ifs Men World Philosophy Facts Happens Universe Behinds Practice Logic Historical Deny Factors Formal Abstraction Objectivity Transcendental Deceptive

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.”

Book Spirituality Practice Library Temples

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.”

Practice Teacher Theory Offers Good Teacher

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.”

Country Age Christian Practice Authority Honour Polite Heathen

Book:Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions

Source: Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions

“[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.”

People Matter Done Culture Individual Practice Talent Skills Unique Management Corporate Programming Initiative Hostile Exceptional Outlets Corporate Culture Submerged Unique Talents

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.”

Source: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

“From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.”

Firsts Long Soul Body Opinion Practice Praying Fame Train Absurd Superstitious

Book:An History of the Corruption of Christianity

Source: An History of the Corruption of Christianity

“Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?”

“Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.”

Men Needs Christianity Practice Records Events

Author:Noah Porter

“Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.”

Doe Practice Position Discipline Offers Perception Solutions Program Critical Contribution Disciple Stimulants

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.”

Shows Lasts Happiness Next House Practice Car Direct Despite Mess Coaching Host Promotion Therapists Talk Shows Searching For Happiness Stinky

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.”

Men Years Practice Taken Wicked Diligent Wicked Man

Book:Use Of Weapons

Source: Use Of Weapons

“[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Should Soul Can Do Practice Talent Fool Jazz

Author:Stewart Copeland

“The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.”

Practice Industry Becoming Driven Consumers Trapped Crash Unfair Loan Mortgage Small Parts

Author:Al Franken