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• If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

  Johnny Ball

  Sensual, Needs, Want

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• Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Knowing, Something Better

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• There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Use, Want

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• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Notable, Increase

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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  Jack White

  Home, White, Stripes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

  Talcott Parsons

  Health, Science, Support

  1951 The Social System, ch.8.

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• It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Science, Invention

  1794 TheAge of Reason, pt.1.

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• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Cost, Flaws, Fraud

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• Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

  Claude Monet

  Water, Insane, Trying

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• Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Easy, Paint, Slits

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Taken, Curiosity, Astonishment

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

  Stephen Cambone

  Data, Environmental, Environment

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• To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Funny, Humorous, Insane

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Past, Technology

  Address, 11 September 1872, in 'Comptes rendus des travaux du Congrés viticole et sèricicole de Lyon, 9-14 septembre 1872' p. 49

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• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Marriage, Infidelity

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Failing, Capacity

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• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Success, Wise, Wealth

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• The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Effort, Principles, Groups

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• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Learning, Knowledge

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.40, Routledge

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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Political, Skins

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• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

  Marya Mannes

  Happiness, Intelligent, Emotional

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

  Howard Nemerov

  Class, Literature, Serious

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

  Bob Black

  Sea, Law, Use

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