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Practicality Quotes

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"

"He who neglects what is done for what ought"

"Cushioning the world with pity does not explain how one plans to have it work"

"Never have more children than you have car windows."

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

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

"Common sense ain't common."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"Truth is what works."

"The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic—the man who actually does the work even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."

"Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied"

"I've got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream"

"Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth"

"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting"

"It is not enough to possess wisdom; it should be used."

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