#practical

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#courage

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#conclusions #congress #detailed #directions #draw

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. ↗

— David Byrne

#could #i #i can #imagining #practicality

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#amazon #create #destruction #disorganized #economic

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#friends #i #i love #intelligent #love

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bureaucrats #city #city government #complicated #condition

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#cost #countries #creditor #debt #difference