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“Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.”

“Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.”

People Knows Should Mean War America Dies President Middle Conflict East Civil War Regions Als President Obama Middle East Syria Supporter Immoral Intervention Al Qaeda Explosives Unlawful

Author:Ron Paul

“Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.”

“Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.”

Stories Happens Universe Reading Next Waiting Possibility Goes On Divides Verses Intervention Every Second

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.”

Numbers Principles Habit Weapons Difficulty Impact Strikes Endless Overwhelming Intervention Precision Pious Combining Invocation Interventionism

Book:Statecraft

Source: Statecraft

“Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.”

Men Taught Execution Intervention Taught Us

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.”

People Needs Believe Government Jobs Protect Lawyer Consumers Free Market Intervention Marketplace Protector Regulators

Author:John Stossel

“Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.”

“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.”

“It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.”

Important Subjects Ideology Make Sense Intervention Critique

Book:Ideology: An Introduction

Source: Ideology: An Introduction

“The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.”

Ifs War Courses Answers Enemy Century Policy One Day Weapons Weak Terror Terrorism Soil Republic Intervention Great War

Author:Pat Buchanan

“Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.”

Government Faces Intervention Surplus Government Intervention

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.”

People Humans Ends Country Together Military Solutions Majority Significant Syria Intervention Saying No Military Intervention

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.”

Thinking World Given Nations Revolution Mets Recognition Firm Crush Courageous Intervention Manly

Author:Franz von Papen

“No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.”

Made Government Past Faces Individual Support Policy Sentences Terrorist Intervention Australian Diplomatic Lead In Intervening

Author:Kevin Rudd

“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.”

“Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.”

Giving Long Country Views Responsible Credit Our Country Intervention Troublesome Unifying

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

“Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.”

Men Should Wells Natural Sin Influence Devil Affair Dues Explanation Primitive Intervention Crude Serpent Primitive Man

Book:The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.”

Way Humans Individual Nations Existence Quality Liberty Moral Produce Jew Characteristics Maintaining Intervention Englishmen Elimination Unwanted Sterilization

Author:Francis Galton

“We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.”

Children Problem Beautiful Sports Four Blessed Intervention

Author:Dan Marino

“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.”

“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.”

“Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.”

Want Happens Together Goal Term Leader Military Accomplish Intervention Pentagon Military Intervention

Author:Jack Keane

“In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.”

“Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.”

Government Consequence Intervention Marketplace Unintended Consequences Government Intervention

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.”

Mean Self Hard Motivation Environment Effects Self Esteem Hard Work Program Perseverance Esteem Traits Intervention Adverse

Author:James Heckman

“Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]”

Difficulty Worthy Intervention

Author:Horace

“Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?”

Men Play Happened Pure Luck Casts Every Man Things Happen Gambling Now And Then Unpredictable Intervention Succession Venus Dice Thrice

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”

Feels Children Ends Talking Taken Strange Limits Terror Committed Cease Justify Intervention Violation Reassuring

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.”

May Children Doe Seems Young Common Method Educational Treatment Intervention Young Children Common Denominator Prognosis

Author:Temple Grandin

“I am a big believer in early intervention.”

Bigs Believer Intervention

Author:Temple Grandin

“[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.”

Ifs Four Dog My Friends Intervention

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back to our shores. But if we could stop youngsters, teenagers from falling into the snares of ISIL or Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations through parental intervention and other strategies then, we hope to be able to rescue them before they commit these crimes.”

People Ifs Want Able Fall Fighting Crime Strategy Terrorist Commit Teenager Als Shore Frank Rescue Intervention Australian Organisation Youngsters Parental Hardened Snares Isil

Author:George Brandis

“If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.”

Ifs Way Party Clothes Cat Window Drinking Gathering Intervention Alcoholism Alcoholics

Author:Amy Sedaris

“The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.”

Ifs Use Body Action Moving Awareness Reasoning Faculty Intervention Our Actions Hesitant

Book:Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)

“Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.”

Needs Kind Conditions Exercise Mindfulness Management All Kinds Recognition Therapy Diets Intervention Programmes Bipolar Schizophrenia Pharmaceutical Diet And Exercise

Author:Stephen Fry

“The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.”

Wells Political Principles Taken Theory Irrelevant Intervention Implications Partisans Excluded Political Theory

Author:Raymond Geuss

“In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.”

Way Different States Government Action Levels Support Tasks Direct Army Police Contemplation Intervention Different Levels Direct Action

Author:Ruben Aguilar

“It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.”

Left Color Intensity Revealing Intervention

Author:Bram van Velde

“The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.”

“If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Doe Law Mother Religious Holy Mary Virgins Intervention Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Gestation Holy Mary

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.”

Political Found Discussion Afghanistan Intervention

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.”

Mind Believe Humanity I Believe Sin Consciousness Christianity Achieve Creation Divine Originals Guilt Fallen Rescue Intervention Original Sin Closed Mind

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.”

Thinking Knows May Government Results Higher Clever Gaps Elites Intervention Government Intervention

Author:Arnold Kling

“Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.”

Ifs Persons Sometimes Remember Suffering Forget Risk Sacrifice Offers Aim Cures Justified Intervention Barbaric Breathtaking

Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.”

Believe War America Peace France Occupation Rescue Intervention

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.”

War States Would Be Peace United United States Changed Circumstances Easier Intervention

Author:Mario Lopez

“If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.”

Ifs Happens Intervention

Author:Marshall Ganz

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