be applied

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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. Leon Trotsky

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

[N]o law, written or unwritten, can be understood without a full knowledge of the facts out of which it arises, and to which it is to be applied. Louis Brandeis

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself. John Calvin

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church. John Calvin

Proverbs can be applied to get what you want. Zimbabwe Proverb

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