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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently...

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Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing thi...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects...

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I made the valuable discovery that practicing wasn't a matter of time at all. It was a matter of int...

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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...

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Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But tha...

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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who do...

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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice change...

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...

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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because ...

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Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love bein...

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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y...

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not follo...

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to p...

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Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover t...

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Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the...

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Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to th...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given ...

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The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is th...

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An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the c...

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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than ...

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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to ...

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It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear frien...

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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and ...

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A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior t...

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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. S...

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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and be...

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Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is mor...

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Aleister CrowleyThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an id...

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Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books ...

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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamenta...

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Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of ...

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Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matt...

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Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...

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Baruch SpinozaTheological-Political Treatise

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I...

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If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone w...

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

Practice every time you get a chance.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice...

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Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get ...

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Brad PaisleyDiary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is total...

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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you ...

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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on fal...

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I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenm...

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I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - w...

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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...

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With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail....

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BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? B...

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Eugène IonescoRhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not ...

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What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing ...

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Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazar...

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Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such sub...

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The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop o...

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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study an...

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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come ...

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I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my ...

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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, ...

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Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You...

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I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our prac...

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What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability c...

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Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinter...

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John McPheeA Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dre...

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John Stuart MillConsiderations on Representative Government