Application Quotes - Page 34

• Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Men, Hands

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.373

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• Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

  Neil Kinnock

  Want, Unfairness, Ideology

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• Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

  Muriel Spark

  Virtue

  Muriel Spark (2011). “Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

  Lester Beall

  Creativity, Design, Creative

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• Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Spring, Taken, Hands

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• A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

  William James

  Horse, Cat, Science

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.51, 谷月社

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• The TMS is evolving into a logistics platform that can handle all nodes, all geographies and all transportation nodes. It's already talking to other applications in the supply chain, like warehouse management, order management and ERP systems. By adding underlying algorithms, a TMS can now understand the relationship between the cost of inventory and the cost of transportation and come up with an optimal solution to answer those questions.

  John Murphy

  Order, Talking, Cost

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• Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Kind, Products

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• If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

  Brand Blanshard

  Block, Science, Consciousness

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