“The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.” Has BeensKnownCrossesAccountsAgentsFormerDeceptionOperationsOfficialsBroadsCommitteesSecrecyChairmanDefianceOutlines Author:Ben Macintyre
“We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.” NeedsKindSelfInterestRoomsWiseTrustConcernAccountsDrivenGenuineOperationsGenerousCheatingBullyingExploitationSelf InterestConcern For Others Author:Dalai Lama
“You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.” MeanBookUseGivenMagicFoolAccountsSacredPreparedPossessionOperationsLengthSquaresInitiativeLiable Author:Aleister Crowley
“Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.” ThinkingAccountsInvestmentInvestingOperations Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing - in which case they would soon be overflowing. Or we can show responsibility and organize a distribution system that takes into account the limits of each individual member state. Migrants, for their part, must recognize that, while they have a right to protection, they do not have the right to freely choose the country. In addition, it is clear: Not everybody can come to us.” TwoCountryStatesShowsIndividualResponsibilityCasesClearLimitsMembersAccountsProtectionOperationsOrganizeDistributionGreeceMigrantsTwo Options Author:Martin Schulz
“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.” KnowsRunningGuyCommunicationTenProgramAccountsPsychologicalOperationsFakeSoftwareStrategicPentagon Author:Michael Hastings
“Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.” ShouldPresidentPowerfulTestsAccountsCriticalChiefsOperationsCommandersBin LadenExhibitsCommander In ChiefWeighing Author:Jon Meacham
“Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.” RealStatesUnderstandingFreedomUnitedMoneyUnited StatesAccountsHistoricalInternationalCongressCreditOperationsReservesBankingManipulateBankersFederal ReserveCentral BanksBanking SystemLendersBankers And BanksCentral BankingBanks And MoneyMoney Lenders Author:Barry Goldwater
“Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.” HumansScienceForceNatureAnxietyLogicAccountsMethodOperationsAnalysisCosmosLogicalDemonstratingPredictabilityMateriality Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.” WholeScienceCoursesDevelopmentComputerCapableAccountsGuidesOperationsAnalysisEnginesExecutionMachinery Author:Charles Babbage
“When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.” MatterScienceGivenResultsNumbersCenturyAmountHabitRiversAccountsNoiseOperationsDisorderContinentsReflectingAstonishingComputation Author:Charles Lyell