"...how false the most profound book turns out……" — William Faulkner
"...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life."
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- I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
- If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
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- Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Theology is only thought applied to religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton
- When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not… — Unknown Author