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“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.”

States Individual Limits Property Operations Spheres Private Property

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.”

Bigs Government Causes Demand Resources Direct Customers Lawyer Operations Enterprise Serving Jumping Restriction Big Government Regulators

Author:Joel Miller

“We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.”

Feels Mean Ideas Earth Energy Perfect Forever Possibility Materials Development Waste Method Stores Mediums Realization Evolve Operations Engines Consumption Obtaining

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.”

World States Faces Challenges United United States Europe Bigger Operations

Author:Jan Peter Balkenende

“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.”

“In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.”

Language Differences Operations Systematic Inventory

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have the right to buy and sell alcohol. That's why all the regulations that people take for granted-the restrictions on hours of operation, the ban on Sunday sales, the minimum distance from schools and churches, the minimum age, and the protection of local wineries from competition by wineries in other states-are illegitimate.”

“The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.”

Men Humans Character Happens Action Certain Human Beings Numbers Circumstances Tragedy Series Deeds Connected Inevitable Operations Catastrophe Sequence Calamity Begets

Book:Shakespearean Tragedy

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'”

Way Want Said Body Jobs Operations

Author:Walter Isaacson

“Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.”

Form Economy Dangerous Elements Operations Destructive Taxation Inflation Benign

Author:Robert Higgs

“If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.”

Ifs Wells May Sides Safe Prove Refuse Legs Operations Surgeons Obstinate Mortification

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".”

Names President Decision Forget Clinton Missions Yesterday Operations Senate Troops President Clinton Bosnia

Author:David Letterman

“But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.”

Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution

“The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.”

War Terrorism Operations War On Terror Bait War On Terrorism

Author:Eric Alterman

“In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.”

Book Jobs Lines Operations

Book:A Perfect Spy

Source: A Perfect Spy

“By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.”

States Interest Lines Communication Unions Disappear Improvement Separation Operations Ties

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.”

Mean Different Ends Self Matter Artist Passion Our Lives Pride Habit Appearance Contrary Practicals Impression Operations Engaged Labour Communion Terminology

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

“A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.”

Imagination Brain Shapes Wine Drinking Operations Fiery Nimble Delectable

Author:William Shakespeare

“The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.”

Writing Mind Art Novel Photography Discovery Extraordinary Operations Labour Novel Writing

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.”

Men Heart Guy Given Rocks Fine News Saved Operations Throwing Palestinian Israeli Bad News Transplants Heart Transplant Throwing Rocks

Author:Jay Leno

“My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.”

Source: CPC [publications].

“You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.”

Heart Force Nations United Europe Destruction Operations Germany Continents United Nations Armed Forces Conjunctions

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.”

Knows Said Lasts President Successful Comedy Week Sentences Ass Operations Tonight President Bush Timetables

Author:Bill Maher

“I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.”

Believe I Believe Elements Critical Operations Stability Monetary

Author:Milton Friedman

“Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.”

People Want Feels Reading Literature Bits Results Perspective Activity Comfortable Management Complexes Affair Operations Acknowledge Insignificance

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.”

Trying Running Sound Challenges Interesting Player Team Balance Operations

Author:Steve Kerr

“I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.”

Made Dream School Mother Girl Military Terrible Yesterday Operations Breakfast Taliban Attending Helicopters Military Operations

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”

Needs Giving Enough Kids Poor Car Sick Operations Graduates Sick Kids

Author:Dolly Parton

“I did not support Operation Desert Fox.”

Support Desert Operations Foxes

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of labor in the long run best serves the selfish concerns of all individuals. The eminence of the market society is that its whole functioning and operation is the consummation of this principle.”

“The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life”

Men Country Age Common He Man Duty Revolution Our Country Operations Deities American Revolution

Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.”

Knows Years Two Reason Found Sound Rooms Blood Lows Years Ago Intention Silent Nervous Operations Forty Exploration Expecting Chamber Vibrations Harvard Nervous System Circulation Life Direction

Author:John Cage

“When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.”

Mind Soul Body Order Actors Justice Projects Doctors Commit Operations Performing Somewhere Else Mind Body Mind Body And Soul

Author:Freida Pinto

“Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism. There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.”

Has Beens Form Situation Laughing Exercise Racism Operations Racist Mexico Greetings

Author:Bocafloja

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).”

“For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.”

People Helping Inspiration Values Moral Source Mercy Universal Islam Tolerance Operations Source Of Inspiration

Author:Wadah Khanfar

“Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.”

Needs Social Quality Bounds Operations Punctuality Punctual

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.”

Age Today Challenges Situation Principles Higher Operations Quarrels Loving God Adjusting

Author:Radhanath Swami

“The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

Law Dies Fighting Names Liberty Greater Danger Citizens Congress Terrorism Terrorist Operations Bureaucracy Civil Liberties American Citizens Fighting Terrorism

Author:Charley Reese

“Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are realms of American life in which government has undermined the operation of market forces and caused artificially high prices. These are two arenas in which the Democrats now propose to do exactly the wrong thing. Their reform reinforces old errors and will infinitely compound the problem of rising prices.”

“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.””

“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”

“The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.'”

States United United States Operations Approval Isis Rating Approval Rating

Author:David Letterman

“The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.”

Mind Sides Mistake Nice Particular Commit Observation Operations Usual Maxims Very Nice Haste

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.”

“There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.”

Way Looks Different Use Water Fronts Waste Female Males Operations Shops Zero Gravity Toilets Tanks Vacuums Cleaners Zero Gravity

Author:Mike Mullane

“There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.”

Fronts Type Degrees Theater Iraq All Time Operations Engaged Afghanistan Location

Author:Dave Abrams

“All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.”

Jobs Lines Special Fronts Operations Combat Elsewhere Units Infantry Special Operations

Author:Renee Montagne

“I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.”