146 Quotes About Pragmatism
- Author Susanna Mittermaier
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What super powers are hiding behind your insanities?
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- Author Geraldine Brooks
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When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
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- Author John Taliaferro
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John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
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- Author Rania Al Abdullah
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Pessimism doesn’t change the reality; it prolongs the status quo. And it brings everyone down. It’s only ever lose-lose. Optimism and faith coupled with pragmatism change the reality. Self-belief and self-reliance change the reality. Boldness to explore new ideas changes the reality. A vision powered by effort and energy changes the reality.
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- Author Rick Perlstein
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Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch.
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- Author Geraldine Brooks
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Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
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- Author Richard Rorty
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Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
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- Author Katie Cross
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You’re not upset about that fate?“I can’t change it, right?”He paused. Pragmatic. Unexpectedly so. I didn’t expect logic from a wild witch like you.
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- Author William James
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An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.
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