"One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory."
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"I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong."
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"Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God."
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"Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience."
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"It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient."
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"One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe."
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"No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself"
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"Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us."
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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application."
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"Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action."
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"If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it."
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"You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else."
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"The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical."
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"The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories."
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"Any theory is better than no theory."
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"Life had stepped into the place of theory."
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"Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is"
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"[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say."
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"Gray is the color of all theory"
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