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“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”
“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”
“There’s the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day – playdates, doctors’ appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.”
“I am a passionate actor, but I am also very practical.”
“Practical wisdom is what’s called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.”
“Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.”
“I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it’s rewarding, ultimately.”
“Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.”
“I’m practical. I see something, and I do it.”
“Dickens was very practical and sensible.”
“I’m a traveling practical joker. That’s my line of work.”
“Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.”
“Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.”
“I’m surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.”
“Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.”
“I’m very practical and realistic.”
“I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.”
“My mother wasn’t a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.”
“I am a practical girl.”
“The longer mathematics lives the more abstract – and therefore, possibly also the more practical – it becomes.”
“A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.”
“Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.”
“I’m progressive, and I’m practical.”
“The Dutch are a very practical people.”
“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”
“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
“I am very practical.”
“’Private Benjamin’ was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.”
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.”
“I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.”
“Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.”
“We can pass practical, comprehensive immigration reform.”
“For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.”
“Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.”
“When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That’s what attracted me to Buddhism.”
“I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.”
“Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don’t know the punchline.”
“There’s a lot of ‘how to adopt’ books, but there’s no practical resource for, say, school supplies.”
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
“I’m very practical. What I’m reaching for is individualism for women.”
“Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.”
“I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.”
“I was too practical to major in theater. Acting – what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.”
“A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
“Roads are not practical in Africa.”
“Whenever possible, buy a fish whole. With tuna, this isn’t practical; with smaller fish, it is.”
“I was too practical to want to be a painter.”
“The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.”
“I’m a very practical person.”
“I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.”
“Work is one of the best educators of practical character.”
“My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.”
“The thing is, I’m a very practical filmmaker.”
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
“The spiritual is the parent of the practical.”
“I am very practical.”
“Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.”
“Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.”
