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I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.

Woody Allen

Work, Play, Events

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For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

David Travis

Photography, Artist, Creative

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If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!

Alexander McCall Smith

Book, Writing, Two

"National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.

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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.

Fay Weldon

Sex, Children, Hands

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Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

Sathya Sai Baba

Trying, Violence, Sincerity

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We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane

Mean, Multicultural Society, Law

Source: www.abc.net.au

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People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.

Harold George Koenig

People, Stressed, Found

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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Ajahn Chah

Likes And Dislikes, Stills, Following

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You do not have to practise all that you read. Take one or two things to practise and then it will become a reality to you.

Sathya Sai Baba

Reality, Two, Two Things

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You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Atul Gawande

Fire, Skills, People

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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

Samuel Johnson

Hands, Mind, Example

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Do not practise excessive humility.

John Todd

Humility

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I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

Saint Basil

Jesus, Men, Names

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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Ben Jonson

Sports, Fortune

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1894). “Ben Jonson”

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Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

Samuel Johnson

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Thrones

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.385

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Trade, Every Man

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Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Max Stirner

Children, Breeding, Made

Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Profession, Knows

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Mormons know that its not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Jonah Peretti

Enough, Spread, Knows

"Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: 'We're not like something that came before'". Interview with Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2013.

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For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.

Umar

Rights, Law, Harsh

"Al Farooq, Umar" by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, ch. 5, p. 123, 1944.

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In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

Marc Levine

Years, Play, California

Source: www.abc.net.au

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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men, Auditors, Sophistry

"Essay, On the Athenian Orators" as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 137, 1922.

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Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

Sophocles

Home, Men, Pay The Price

Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint

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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Mary Astell

Vices, Add, Absurdity

Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

Johannes Tauler

Blessed, Godly, Exercise

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