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practical
«The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?»
Author: Billy Connolly
(Actor)
| Keywords:
apparently, get started, have sex, human race, joke, playing, play a joke on, practical, practical joke, set up, started
«The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| Keywords:
commonly, defunct, economist, economists, philosophers, practical, ruled
«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
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«There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affair, joke, man of affairs, mixed, occasions, practical, practical joke, queer, queerer, queerest, vast
«The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
desired, former, latter, objects, practical, shunned
«The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, Politics of, practical, practical politics, The Politics
«The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Equality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, Britain, declaration, effecting, Great Britain, placed, practical, Practical effect, separation
«There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Practicality,
Thought
| Keywords:
housekeeping, practical, understands
