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“Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.”

Secret Army Agents Operations Intimate Commanders Confidential Secret Agent

Author:Sun Tzu

“Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.”

Given Secret Rewards Agents Operations Confidential Secret Agent

Author:Sun Tzu

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.”

Thinking Made Important Moments Numbers Civilization Battle Horse Operations Extending Cavalry Decisive Moments

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism

“There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.”

Has Beens Hard Military Overcoming Size Operations Inertia Initiate Military Operations

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.”

Enough Bigs Earth Realizing Conflict Operations Afar

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.”

People Ifs Needs Kind Cases Essentials Absolutes Finals Operations Minimum Items Summit Filters Treacherous Everest Ascent Aquariums Mount Everest

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the man's brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men.”

Men Has Beens Brain Doctors Operations Rejects Pigs Historic Boston Tissues

Author:Jay Leno

“There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?”

Way May Two Country Lasts Safety Holes Operations Centre Castles Two Ways Truest Loops Guarding

Book:The Purpose and Use of Comfort

Source: The Purpose and Use of Comfort

“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.”

Knows Needs Mind Humans Two Action Judging Operations Motive Human Mind Discerning

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Needs Should Wells Running Young Asks Risk Capable Men And Women Brave Operations Young Man Need You Battlefields Tactical Risking Your Life

Author:Wesley Clark

“We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.”

“Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.”

Reading Operations

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?”

Life Is Operations Anesthetics

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.”

People Knows Book Reading Brain Magic Kings One Day England Advertising Operations Reading Books Expecting Surgeons Lanterns

Author:David Ogilvy

“Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?”

Knows Book Know How Instinct Operations Tonight Surgeons Anatomy Supposing

Author:David Ogilvy

“While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage.”

Mind Self Brain Consciousness Stage Activity Theater Invisible Command Operations Internals March Boss Spectators Transparent Chaotic Unified Utterance Opaque

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.”

Years Long Past Force Roles Military Majors Areas Tasks Army Operations Canada Units Over The Past Port Departure Naval Military Operations Task Forces Halifax

Author:Willie Morris

“In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated.”

Action Results Study Objects Independent Defined Mathematical Operations Analysis Consideration Peculiar Engines Distinguished Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.”

May Values Process Subjects Logic Mathematics Operations Abstract Reasoning Peculiar

Author:Ada Lovelace

“One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Reason Used Felt Results Symbols Mathematical Reason Why Operations Shifting

Author:Ada Lovelace

“The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.”

Numbers Subjects Operations Abstract Peculiar Engines

Author:Ada Lovelace

“What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.”

World Whole Life Is Purpose Pleasure Principles Doubt Whole World Operations No Doubt Purpose Of Life Programmes Efficacy Microcosm

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.”

Years Country Bigs Pleasure Operations Entertainers Alphas

Author:Roy Acuff

“Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.”

Jobs Materials Environmental Spending Operations Construction Engineering Manufacturing Maintenance

Author:Keith Ellison

“Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.”

World Want Powerful Creating Operations Subtle Destroying

Book:Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens

Source: Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens

“Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.”

Ifs Wells Looks Bigs Light Moving White Company Cases Population Operations Immigrants Southern Hemisphere Scientology Big Companies Salvage Southern Africa

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There’s no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.”

“I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.”

Done Company Operations Microsoft Archives

Author:Bill Gates

“I wanted to do something that dealt with more of paranormal techniques that wasn't a horror movie. It is an action movie that deals with a special operations group. But if a Tier One team went in to take out Bin Laden today, if you had those kind of abilities, of course you would use that kind of group. And it was more going into that arena. And I wanted to make it feel more like, grounded, as if we had this ability.”

Ifs Feels Kind Use Today Action Wanted Courses Ability Deals Groups Team Special Horror Technique Operations Paranormal Grounded Arena Bin Laden Action Movie Special Operations

Author:Len Wiseman

“I've been working with Operation Smile for a number of years, and $240 changes and saves, in many cases, saves a child's life. But one of the things I'm super excited about is my partnership with Boston Market this holiday season and we've partnered up not only to help everybody out during the holidays because we know how crazy it gets.”

Knows Years Children Helping Numbers Cases Know How Crazy Seasons Excited Operations Holiday Partnership Boston Holiday Season

Author:Kate Walsh

“Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.”

Law Congress Burden Operations Taxation Retard Constitutional Law

Book:John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland

Source: John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland

“Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.”

People Whole Courses Difficult Practice Civilization Capable Training Series Great Things Operations Difficult Things Advancing

Book:The London and Westminster Review

Source: The London and Westminster Review

“When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.”

Stories Romance Process Attitude Moral Teach Produce Operations Subtle Iron Butterfly Pins Unnatural Depriving

Book:Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels

Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels

“Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.”

People Knows Wells Looks Important Government Support Risk Operations Agency Cia

Author:Leon Panetta

“The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.”

Way Needs Use Fishes Operations Daily Life Zero Cardinals Civilised

Book:An Introduction to Mathematics

Source: An Introduction to Mathematics

“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.”

People Ends Three Work Business Economy Products Profit Operations Three Words Inspiring Business Teamwork Success

Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never mind that it was the government that promised but failed to protect us. It was the government that prevented the airlines from protecting themselves. It was the government that so badly botched the rescue operations. It was the government that had stirred up the hate that led to the terrorism.”

Mind Seems Government Hate Dangerous Fit Protect Bills Terrorism Criminals Operations Rescue Airline

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“From the descent of the Holy Spirit at the beginning we may learn something concerning His operations at the present time. Remember at the outset that whatever the Holy Spirit was at the first, He is that now, for as God, He remains forever the same-whatever He did then He is able to do still, for His power is by no means diminished.”

Firsts May Mean Stills Able Remember Spirit Forever Holy Remains Operations Holy Spirit Descent Present Time

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.”

Government Growth Produce Operations Flaws Representatives Representative Government

Author:Allan H. Meltzer

“The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.”

Country Whole Wish Operations Als Harbors Cia Covert Death Wish

Author:Bob Tyrrell

“All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.”

Government Consumers Operations Bureaucrats

Author:Murray Rothbard

“[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.”

Law Virtue Inspire Vices Operations Imperfect Wisest Precarious

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I believe that we [Americans] are making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists at this point, and I think it's time that we stepped back from this aggressive assertion that we can just go to any country and conduct lethal operations.”

Thinking Believe Country I Believe Enemy Killing Terrorist Operations Aggressive Assertion

Author:Jeremy Scahill

“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.”

Two Country States Shows Individual Responsibility Cases Clear Limits Members Accounts Protection Operations Organize Distribution Greece Migrants Two Options

Author:Martin Schulz

“Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.”

World Process Class Cutting Products Keys Cost Solutions Expectations Areas Seeking Customers Firm Operations Reduction Examining World Class New Products Streamlining

Author:Daniel Baldwin

“There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.”

Economy Produce Operations

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.”

Ifs Stills Running Mistake Brilliant Operations Efficient

Author:Sam Walton

“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.”