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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.


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JOHN LOCKE Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.
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RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

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JADE HAJJ An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS All for all, always.
MARTHA N. BECK There is nothing like practice.
ALAN HOVHANESS For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
BECKY G It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
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MOSES MENDELSSOHN An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. A person without knowledge of his history is like a tree without roots.
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ASHLEY LEWIS I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
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UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Stop simply living for one tomorrow and live for all eternity!
ISAAC JOHN GERAMI Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently...
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CHARLES H. SPURGEON He that whines for Glass without G/ Take away L and that's he.
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ANUJ SOMANY Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.
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CODY ARNOLD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th...
ALFRED WHITEHEAD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all tha...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is ...
GRACE METALIOUS Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
ZHUANGZI Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse
CHUANG TZU Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZHUANGZI The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to d...
DEWAYNE OWENS I take pride in practice. I don't show up like practice is practice; I show up to get better. Every ...
JEFF PENDERGRAPH If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
ABU BAKR Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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KARL JASPERS To be looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour.
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ALASDAIR GRAY There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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JAMES MARK BALDWIN An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like ...
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