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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Practice
Yogi Berra

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
Experience
Cadman

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It is a condition which confronts usnot a theory.
Uncategorised
Grover Cleveland

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Biography
Benjamin Disraeli

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Facts
Albert Einstein

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It is theory that decides what can be observed.
Theory
Albert Einstein

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Action
Friedrich Engels

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Business
Harold S. Geneen

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Theory
Edgar Watson Howe

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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Theory
Edgar Watson Howe

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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
Theory
Ruth Hubbard

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Mistakes
Billy Joel

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Freedom
Samuel Johnson

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The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Communism and Socialism
Karl Marx

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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Thomas L. Masson

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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Theory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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A theory must be tempered with reality.
Reality
Jawaharlal Nehru

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Truth
Hunter S. Thompson

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Humankind
Walt Whitman

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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun