#practicality

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#history #practicality #tudors #men

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#concept #each #experiences #focus #idea

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#art

Carnal love: a practical man’s love. A love you can see, touch, and taste if you’re kinky. If you can’t hear it, you’re probably better suited to its more abstract form. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #practicality #sensuality #funny

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast. ↗

— Roger Eschbacher

#practicality-for-intellectuals #swords #writing #humor

Books and minds only work when they're open. ↗

— James Dewar

#intelligence #left-is-right-and-right-is-wrong #liberalism #open-mindedness #practicality

Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#practicality-for-intellectuals #truth-telling #inspirational

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business. ↗

— George Eliot

#practicality #business

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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