#applied

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. ↗

— William Temple

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Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ↗

— China Miéville

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Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ↗

— Stuart Chase

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I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy. ↗

— Lee Child

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