Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Ch. 24.Henry Adams
For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his “atheism” consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. … It is the divinizing of politics.
Julien Benda
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals.
George Moore
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Peter Medawar
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