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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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people
environmentalists
logistics
environmentalism
practicality
realism
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David Brin |
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Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.
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irony
truth
practicality
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James S.A. Corey |
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Sure, she loves him. But they've got two different ideas of love. He wants to dance with her on a terrace with a full moon and a thirty-six-piece orchestra; he wants to go singing through storms with her, like Gene Kelly. She knows about thirty-six-piece orchestras. You have to feed them, and then there's nothing left for the children.
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love
full-moon
gene-kelly
singin-in-the-rain
thirty-six-piece-orchestras
practicality
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Peter S. Beagle |
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If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems.
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history
tudors
practicality
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Hilary Mantel |
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"When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy.But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals."
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idealism
youth
politics
practicality
experience
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G.K. Chesterton |
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It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.
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pondering
useful
practicality
self-deception
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John Steinbeck |
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I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.
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practicality
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George Eliot |
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I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with deep seriousness Thomas Hardy's words, 'If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.
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reality
truth
practicality
psychotherapy
self-improvement
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Irvin D. Yalom |
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One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.
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practicality
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
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Whereas it seemed to me, back then, in the absolutism of my condition, that love had nothing to do with practicality; indeed, was its polar opposite. And the fact that it showed contempt for such banal considerations was part of its glory. Love was by its very nature disruptive, cataclysmic; and if it was not, then it was not love.
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love
practicality
the-only-story
julian-barnes
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Julian Barnes |