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«Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy»
«Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.»
«An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men»
Author: Ignazio Silon
| Keywords:
achieves, earthquake, earthquakes, equality, equality before the law, in practice, maintain, practice of law, promises
«Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.»
Author: James F. Cooper
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in practice
«Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.»
Author: Meg Greenfield
| About:
Democracy
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in practice, in principle, objections, stiff, stiffest, stiffing
«A woman will lie about anything, just to stay in practice»
Author: Phillip Marlowe
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in practice
«However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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distinguishing, fiercely, in practice, opposed, pretext, pretexts, prevents, respecting, stand for
«A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.»
«An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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economist, in practice, in theory, practice, theory, wonders, works, work in
«How necessary was the care of the Creator in making the moral principle so much a part of our constitution as that no errors reasoning or of speculation might lead us astray from its observance in practice.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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astray, in practice, moral principle, observance, speculation
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