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«The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.»
Author: George B. Leonard
| Keywords:
Brain may, capacity, for all practical purposes, infinite, practical, purposes, The Brain, The Ultimate, ultimate
«Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
high-powered, higher power, human brain, particular, powered, practical, uses, very much
«This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
inconceivable, ours, practical, religious belief, religious beliefs
«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
aim, alarmed, alarming, alarms, clamorous, endless, hence, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, imaginary, imaginary being, LED, menaced, menaces, menacing, politics, populace, practical, practical politics, safeties, safety, series, The Alarm, The Hobgoblin, The Menace
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, advantages, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, commonly, counsel, goodwill, harmony, influence, in harmony, in time, living substance, melodies, melody, practical, substance, substances, sufficient, trifled, trifling, utmost
«Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
charmed, charming, fascinate, fascinates, fascinating, fellow, income, incomes, one use, permanent, poor, practical, privilege, profession, prosaic, rich, romance, romances, romancing, There is no, The Fellows, the poor, unemployed, use, wealthier, wealthiest, wealthy
«The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.»
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