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The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. ↗

— Robert Walpole

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. ↗

— Walter Wager

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

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