"One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory."
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"It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion."
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"This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love."
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"The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . ."
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"We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right."
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"Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice."
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"I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you."
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"Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice."
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"The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement."
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"Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory."
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"By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need."
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"Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion."
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"To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value."
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"The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion."
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"All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body."
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"God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables."
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"Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice."
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"Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are."
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"If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken."
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"Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence."
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