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• someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

  Jan Burke

  Arrogance, Accepted, Position

  Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Might, Distraction

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• Healing is the application of love to the places inside that hurt.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing

  "Healing The Present With The Past" by Jennifer A. Cabot, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2017.

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• Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.

  Tom Felton

  Pain, Spring, Knowledge

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• But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, History, Catholic

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.292

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• Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.

  Hugh Prather

  Strong, Book, Communication

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• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Agreement

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

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• The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Order, Light, Common Sense

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.296, Oxford University Press

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• Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Horse, Mean, Men

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 23, 1958.

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• General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Dangerous, Instance, Particular

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”, p.268

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• The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Effort, Trying

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  B. C. Forbes

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

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• There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.

  George Arthur French

  Principles, May, Matter

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• I believe that anyone who wants to wear a thong should have to go through an application process.

  Bill Engvall

  Believe, Should Have, Want

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• Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

  Ted Nelson

  Use, Given, Prisoner

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  Daley Thompson

  Champion, Forethought, Bits

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2012.

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• To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

  Martin Rees

  Skills, Important, Development

  "The stimulus of science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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• I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Medicine, Foundation, Aging

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

  Jamais Cascio

  Cutting, Clouds, Data

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• Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

  Carl Sagan

  Exercise, Technology, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it

  Jack Dangermond

  Imagination, Use, Gis

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• The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  People, Weight, Argument

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• In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Opportunity, Iphone, Would Be

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Tea, Mind

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