#applied

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him. ↗

— Nate Silver

#believe #caesar #him #recognized

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bearing #dress #found #god #man

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clerk #doctor #get #hall #heart

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends. ↗

— Giovanni Giolitti

#friends #interpreted #laws #only #regards

Politics is applied biology. ↗

— Ernst Haeckel

#biology #politics