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“To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.”

Process Term Results Democracy Consequence Oneself Definitions Practicals Characteristics Unwanted

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”

People Ifs Real Opportunity Results Millions Tree Economic Activity Rain Destruction Practicals Forests Amazon Disorganized

Author:Roberto Unger

“Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.”

Years Political Three Social Results Revolution Europe Presses Practicals Doctrine France Sixty Three Times Political Revolution

Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth

Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth

“Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.”

Feels Trying Spiritual Results Directors Advantage Practicals Producers Familiarity Literal Practical Things

Author:Campbell Scott

“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.”

“The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed - we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.”

Kind Reason Seems Law Results Moral Conditions Proud Various Practicals Be Proud Compulsion Authoritarianism Fiber Moral Fiber

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.”

Needs Political Causes Results Views Liberty Projects Practicals Cease Reform Perceive Adoption Parliament Funding Parliamentary

Author:William Cobbett

“it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.”

People Use Results Nice Like You Practicals Thieves Don't Trust Nice People

Author:Erik Naggum

“The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.”

Children Has Beens War Matter Age Sides Results Brain Blood Terrible Conflict Eternal Species Details Practicals Relate Dragons Incapable Publishers Dissatisfied Comprehending Shelley

Author:Mary Abigail Dodge

“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.”

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.”

Ifs Feels Humans Results Investing Practicals Staying Beaten

Author:George Orwell

“For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.”

Years Has Beens Book Results Our Lives Advice Pages Garden Extraordinary Delight Practicals Memoir Thirty Sensible Gardening Sheer Thirty Years Wayne Legendary

Author:Philip Gambone

“There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.”

“We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.”

Order Results Independent Practicals Combination Operations Engines Quantity Imaginary Attainment Suggesting

Author:Ada Lovelace

“We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement.”

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Author:Ada Lovelace

“My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.”

Want May Results Wonderful Produce Tomorrow Ambition Flying Practicals Planes My Ambition

Book:Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

Source: Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.”

Has Beens Different Real Facts Faces Belief Results Opinion Effects Particular Ought Tests Fruit Arguing Practicals Heroic Uniforms Appearing Soundness

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

“Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.”

Men Real Action Love Is Results Truth Is Ideals Real Life Practicals Application Dharma Untrue Right Action

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

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