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Letter "F" » for all practical purposes
«The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.»
Author: George B. Leonard
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Brain may, capacity, for all practical purposes, infinite, practical, purposes, The Brain, The Ultimate, ultimate
«Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
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Science
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for all practical purposes, in view, practical, scientific, scientific discovery, scientific knowledge, whatsoever
«The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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amounts, for all practical purposes, odds, overwhelming, probability, purposes
«If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Government
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ask me, competent, for all practical purposes, Judges, lawful
«If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.»
«Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty/how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.»
«There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
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for all practical purposes, high sea, pilots, practical politics, unfaltering
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