#practical

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

#chosen #crime #dark #deliberately #expressed

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#almost #assume #baby #being #certainly

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#accelerator #amateur #approach #asset #been

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. ↗

— Stanford Moore

#aura #ceremony #chemist #grown #intellectual

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. ↗

— Johann Most

#book #god #his #idiot #listen

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

#bored #creative #disappointed #dynamic #every

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations. ↗

— George William Norris

#about #advocate #agreement #been #between

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#early #failures #few #greatest #life

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. ↗

— Edward Norton

#every #films #got #independent #independent films

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. ↗

— Michael Novak

#awful #bishop #character #even #every