#practical

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

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

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#little #little things #man #practical #really

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#between #brutal #differences #end #governments

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#class #expected #here #knowledge #me

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fled #form #into #liberal #novels

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid! ↗

— R. L. Stine

#books #comic #comic books #every #get

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work. ↗

— Theodor Svedberg

#all things #before #clear #demands #our