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  • Practically Wise varies: for whatever provides all things well for itself, to this they would apply the term Practically Wise, and commit these matters to it; which is the reason, by the way, that they call some brutes Practically Wise, such that is as plainly have a faculty of forethought respecting their own subsistence.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Practically from the moment he entered office, Bush 43 has established a pattern of saying one thing (usually what the public wants to hear) while doing another (often the opposite of what the public wants or needs), twisting the facts to meet his pre-conceived goals and ideas, and always – ALWAYS – kowtowing to the wishes of Big Business and the extreme religious right.

    Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Book review: The Book on Bush 2004

  • Practically from the moment he entered office, Bush 43 has established a pattern of saying one thing (usually what the public wants to hear) while doing another (often the opposite of what the public wants or needs), twisting the facts to meet his pre-conceived goals and ideas, and always – ALWAYS – kowtowing to the wishes of Big Business and the extreme religious right.

    Simple Tricks and Nonsense: March 2004 Archives 2004

  • Practically, that is to say, the shareholder will buy up almost all the available architectural talent.

    Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

  • Practically, that is what it amounted to -- I admit it in sackcloth and ashes.

    Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885

  • In Mr. Taylor's keynote address titled "Practically Radical: Transforming Your Company and Challenging Yourself," he will use a collection of lessons learned and case studies across multiple industries to explain how attendees can "shake up your industry, transform your company and recharge yourself."

    unknown title 2011

  • "Practically," Brookhiser writes, "Bush's faith means that he does not tolerate, or even recognize, ambiguity: there is an all-knowing God who decrees certain behaviors, and leaders must obey."

    What Makes W. Tick? 2003

  • "Practically," Brookhiser writes, "Bush's faith means that he does not tolerate, or even recognize, ambiguity: there is an all-knowing God who decrees certain behaviors, and leaders must obey."

    What Makes W. Tick? 2003

  • "Practically," admitted the dear parent with a wry grin.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • "Practically," says Mr. Morgan, "they were appropriated by the nearest of kin; but the principle was general that the property should remain in the gens."

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

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