And he had a practical sense of humor that - he was always playing jokes.
Mr. WARREN BUFFETT (Investor): At a practical sense, as institutions, they don't have any net worth.
It makes practical sense to talk about how we achieve alignment between the investors and the team.
In a practical sense, this tradition forces people to make their meals more diverse and plan them out more carefully, Regenstein said.
That makes practical sense: since harvests vary according to the crop and last for only a few days, few jobs can be long-term.
From a practical sense, these attributes create the divide between the fiction and the realities of people cutting the cord and going mobile only.
This doesn't just make practical sense in a divided government (a reality some Democrats seem to forget) -- it makes compelling political sense as well.
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Others admit that since sharia is more of a tradition and form of practice than a code, trying to define it makes little practical sense.
Asian transport analyst Eric Lin says it makes no practical sense for airlines to have to weigh every one of their thousands of departing passengers each day.
"I don't think this is anything that's going to be done in the next few decades in a practical sense, but maybe further down the line, " Gray said.
The Death Star project concept falls in a practical sense at the first hurdle as nobody knows how to build a near light speed propulsion engine for it.
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Whether it makes practical sense is another matter.
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The Monadnock is a good place to get a practical sense of how quickly these innovations were catching on: the original northern half of the building consists of traditional load-bearing walls that are 6ft thick at the bottom, while the southern half, constructed only two years later, uses the then-revolutionary metal frame for drastically thinner walls that go just as high.
And the good thing about America is that sometimes we get to these bottlenecks and we get stuck, and you have these sharp, partisan fights, but the American people pretty steadily are common sense and practical, and eventually, that common-sense, practical approach wins out.
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How can you intelligently discuss and regulate something that is still in the discovery and development stage, before it really exists in a practical manufacturing sense?
Culinary mindfulness is a practical, common-sense psychology that helps people maximize gratification from food.
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Although this book is written in slightly mannered mandarin English, Sir David's practical knowledge, common sense and decency shine through.
Now, once we get past the two poles of this debate, it becomes possible to shape a practical, common-sense approach that reflects our heritage and our values.
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What's also been acknowledged is that the 12 million or so undocumented workers are here -- who are not paying taxes in the ways that we'd like them to be paying taxes, who are living in the shadows, that that is a group that we have to deal with in a practical, common-sense way.
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"One of the key areas where common sense and the practical, day-to-day experience of teachers all over the country has been sacrificed on the altar of political targets is discipline, " she said.
Cowboy you want to be your beer buddy: great stories, great timing, great sense of humour and intensely practical.
Mr Milosz is as much a philosopher as a literary critic, though one with a practical turn of mind, a wry sense of humour and a taste for irreducible particulars.
Apple likes to choose where the work is done for practical reasons, like where it most makes sense.
Not just a sense of rectitude, there were a few practical considerations forcing their hand.
That work was led, perhaps coincidentally, by imaginative, far sighted Germans who fed us all a sense that this was a real mission driven by practical ingenuity.
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As a practical matter, Mr Blair argued that a legal right to recognition made more sense than to risk damaging strikes about it.
These are concepts of great practical significance, even if they sound abstract and platitudinous, because they underlie one's sense of right and moral self-confidence.
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