There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the … - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

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The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

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Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

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In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

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Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

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Read much, but not many works.

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She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it was not much fun to do that big sequence with a bunch of laughing, ogling frat-boy actors. I mean, can you imagine putting up with me, [John] Cusack, Alan Ruck, and Andrew McCarthy at 18?

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Leonard Cohen

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

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Gertrude Stein

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

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James Russell Lowell

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

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