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  • I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

  • Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

    Spiritual   Believe   Men  
    Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”
  • If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

  • There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

    Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
  • I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

  • I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality.

  • Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.

    Lying   Heart   Media  
  • I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

    Source: collider.com
  • A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour.

  • I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales.

    Independent   Names   Way  
    "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.
  • The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

    Purpose   Boring   Form  
  • The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

    Soul   Hay   Stacking  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.89, Xist Publishing
  • I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

  • And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (pg. 98)

    Giving   Shining   Bird  
    Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada
  • I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Spirituality is connected with practicality.

  • We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.

    Running   Self   Long  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

    Mean   Car   Ferrari  
  • Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.96
  • The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.

  • Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.

    Cutting   Land   Clothes  
  • If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

    Wall   Break   Beats  
    Antonio Gramsci (1968). “The modern prince: and other writings”
  • Common sense is not so common.

    Life   Wisdom   Witty  
    Dictionnaire Philosophique "Common Sense" (1765)
  • I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

    Men   Tragedy   Barns  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.138, Harvard University Press
  • Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

    Uplifting   Mind   Looks  
    "Complete Works".
  • My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!

  • You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

    Fear   Real   Names  
    Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.154, Macmillan
  • There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

  • Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

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