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“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“But the school in which good training is most practised will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.” Linus Torvalds
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth, but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
“we must cultivate our garden.” Voltaire, Candide
“Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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