Practice Quotes
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Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.'
Dean Acheson
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In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.
Lucy Stone
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The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise-the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
Alan Keyes
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Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
Amy Chua
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
B. W. Powe
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
James Cash Penney
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Iverson: Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game... the actual game, when it matters... We're talking about practice ...
Allen Iverson
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Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.
Antoinette Bosco
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The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
Yamada Koun
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I thought it would be a lot tougher. Once they showed us the right way to do it, it wasn't too hard. I still need some practice though.
Andrew Brown
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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
Elliot Richardson
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If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.
Barack Obama
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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
John Paul Jones
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Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.
Ben Bernanke
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Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I've learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could've on my own.
Megan Amram
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Warner Music has illegally provided radio stations with financial benefits to obtain airplay and boost the chart position of its songs, ... abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for airplay.
Eliot Spitzer
