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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Use, Separation

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.90, Penguin

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• We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

  Stacy London

  Self Esteem, Moving, Emotional

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.12, Penguin

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• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Strong, Dark

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.146, Lulu.com

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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.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Strange, Affair

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, People, Bored

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

  Harry Nilsson

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Husband, Past, Problem

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• I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

  Joel Osteen

  Everyday, Trying, Principles

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• I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

  Joel Osteen

  Issues, Deals

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• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  Camille Paglia

  Political, Prudent, Resurrection

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• Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Commitment, Responsibility

  "Why We Must Unite Against The Unprincipled Speculators". www.businessinsider.com. March 8, 2010.

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• When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Player, Coaching

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• The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

  Albert Pike

  Light, Medicine, Justice

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Writing, Two

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• True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Spiritual, Goal, Aim

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• There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Politics, Kind, Individualism

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “The Square Deal, 1901-1905”

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• Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

  Kevin Rudd

  Passionate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Funny, Life

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• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  John Ruskin

  Two, Design, Firsts

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

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• Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Powerful, Lying

  "Selections From the Works of John Ruskin".

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• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Animal

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.28, Bertrand Russell

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• Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

  Winona Ryder

  Real, People, Worry

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• Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Impact, Dollars

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 12, 2011.

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