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“This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.”

Law Nations International Israel Operations Borders Resolution Territory Conducting International Law

Author:John Boehner

“Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.”

Writing Book Teaching Training Research Experiments More Time Academic Devoted Writing A Book Conducting Academic Life

Author:Derek Bok

“I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.”

Thinking Years Littles Play Jobs Sex Women Work Music Composer Orchestra Initials Conductor Astonishment Conducting Over 50 Battle Of The Sexes

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.”

Thinking Want Children Acting Worry Adults Conducting Savvy

Author:Ashley Jensen

“The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.”

Wells Faces Fall Morning Versions Tape Every Morning Orchestra Symphony Ceilings Alarms Transcendent Conducting Vienna Rigged

Author:Stephen Fry

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

“..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.”

Gone Argument Mad Neighbor Magician Conducting

Author:Susanna Clarke

“and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”

Children Forty Herds Conducting

Book:A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)

“Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.”

Men War Conquer Empires Submit Scotland Persistent Gave Up Free Man Conducting Guerrillas

Book:The Folklore of Discworld

Source: The Folklore of Discworld

“When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?”

Looks Empires Conducting Inmates Ottomans Ottoman Empire

Author:Julie Burchill

“There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.”

World Littles Hard Bigs Together Purpose Guy Secret Wonderful Rocks Jazz Bunch Friendly Teamwork Rock And Roll Up To You Playing Music Conducting Elevating

Author:Keith Richards

“Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.”

Able Missing Aspect Subtle Conductor Conducting Cuffs

Author:Carter Burwell

“Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous?”

Source: Faefever

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”

Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.”

Hard Might Sides Results Research Increase Experiments Cigarette Charisma Conducting Gin

Book:The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel

“I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.”

Pain Lying Masters Fine Symphony Conducting Sadistic Maestro

Author:Kiersten White

“The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.”

Mother Force Retreat Conducting Gulf War

Author:Dick Cheney

“I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

“Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.”

Made Challenges Brain Millions Objects Research Patterns Billions Cells Nerves Dozen Thread Units Ingenuity Intricate Conducting Interconnected Weaving

Author:William Feindel

“Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.”

Thinking Needs Different Garden Relation Plant Symphony Different Times Conducting Placement

Author:Elisabeth Murdoch

“And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.”

Littles Used Mets Depth Guests Conducting

Author:James Levine

“Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.”

Made Two Hard Success Effort Lord Grace Accounts Mathematics Connected Math Mathematical Flash Thread Lightning Riddle Two Days Conducting

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it”

Knows Way Mean Business Like You Economics Responsible Management Customers Employee Conducting Good Business Responsible Business

Author:M. Anthony Burns

“Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.”

Giving Wells Kind Wanted Special Accidents Birthday Concerts San Francisco Dropping Hints Attending Conducting

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.”

“The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.”

Results Effort Achieve Musical Technique Clarity Gestures Minimum Vitality Maximum Precision Conducting

Author:Fritz Reiner

“In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”

War Soul Military Depends Defense Efficiency Offense Conducting

Author:George S. Patton

“I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.”

“The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.”

Wells War States Government President Danger Constitution Army Foundation Sake Separation Organized Fabric Legislature Conducting Declaring Vests Delegation Declaring War

Author:James Madison

“Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.”

Matter Limits Experiments Reminding Conducting Your Presence Reminding Yourself

Book:How It Ended

Source: How It Ended

“Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.”

“I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?”

Doe Book Use Musical Score Lions Cages Orchestra Conducting Dimitri

Author:Dimitris Mitropoulos

“God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.”

Way Should Sound Musical Conducting

Author:Arturo Toscanini

“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.”

Important Shows Body Hands Brain Technology Materials Essentials Research Tools Method Important Things Developing Our Thoughts New Technology Conducting Craftsmanship

Author:Issey Miyake

“No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man. The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man as if people did not matter at all.”

“I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day”

Practice Basketball Planning Each Day Nba Conducting Basketball Leadership

Author:John Wooden

“The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.”

Art Play Knowing Orchestra Conducting

Author:Herbert von Karajan

“The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.”

Pleasure Air Missing Arms Contact Sensual Conducting Sensual Pleasure

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.”

“The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.”

Tasks Difficulty Unions Agency Soviet Soviet Union Espionage Conducting

Author:Aldrich Ames

“Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.”

States Helping Used Black White Millions Study Scientist Cells Officials Black Women Campus Conducting Infamous Technicians Syphilis Immortal Life

Book:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Source: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."”

“On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.”

Life Said Two Ends Next Left Week Worship Soldier Finished Sunday Prisoner Allies Camps Next Day April Conducting Beginning Of Life Schoenberg

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.”

Knows Men Mind Views Know How He Man Weakness Point Of View Manifestation Remarkable Standing Out Conducting Resourcefulness

Book:Meetings with Remarkable Men

Source: Meetings with Remarkable Men

“Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.”

Feels Mean Self Country Findings Relation Method International Going Away Stakes Worthwhile Participation International Relations Conducting Universality Unesco Worthwhile Things

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."”

Men Long Wish Music He Man Periods Performances Towns Notes Dear Following Concerts Farmers Small Town Conducting

Author:Arturo Toscanini

“The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.”

Trying Whole Actors Bits Directors Concerned Bigger Orchestra Conducting Bigger Picture

Author:Roland Joffe

“It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.”

Should Success South Certainty Operations Labour Facility Anticipate Wales Conducting Competencies

Book:Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

Source: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

“Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.”

Healthy Profession Conducting

Author:Jeffrey Tate

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