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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion.
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Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory"
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.
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George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.
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unattributed truth from r.g.frp
There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
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Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1

Results from Poor Man's College:

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Samuel Smiles
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