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"As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice."
"All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road."
"Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain."
"Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future."
"You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group."
"Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress."
"It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house."
"The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real."
"All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity."
"The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice."
"Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together."
"I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice."
"By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out."
"The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue."
"For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice."
"Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice."
"Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue."
"Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future."
"If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance."
"For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing."
