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“Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.”

“Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.”

World Use Problem Energy Responsibility Company Environment News Climate Environmental Climate Change Operations Energy Use

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take action now. PepsiCo has already taken actions in our operations and throughout our supply chain to 'future- proof' our company-all of which deliver real cost savings, mitigate risk, protect our license to operate, and create resilience in our supply chain.”

“A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.”

Men Doe Made Wish Grace Willing He Man Holy Creatures Saved Ghost Operations Holy Ghost Calvinism

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.”

Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters

“We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.”

“To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.”

Way Years Wells Use Order Force Party Practice Five Hundred Capitalism Historical Ancient Invention Operations Opponents Remarkable Mechanism Transactions Use Of Force

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.”

Culture Individual Force Perception Capitalism Historical Contrary Ideology Operations Threatening Veils Hierarchy Framework Mobility Meritocracy Allocation

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.”

States Individual Force Justice Relation Operations Sincere Catholicism Vigorous Armed Forces

Author:Pope John XXIII

“The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal, nor wholly national.”

Government Source Ordinary Constitution Foundation Operations Amendments Introducing Composition Tested Antagonist Federalism

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.”

Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the federalist, civil and military

“I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations.”

Men Government Heaven Principles Wise Design Capable Combination Operations Venture Vigorous

Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

“There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Government of the United States. The Government of the U.S. like all Governments free in their principles, rests on compact; a compact, not between the Government & the parties who formed & live under it; but among the parties themselves, and the strongest of Governments are those in which the compacts were most fairly formed and most faithfully executed.”

States Government United Views Party Principles United States Influence Subjects Ought Strikes Doctrine Operations Strongest Compact

Author:James Madison

“The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.”

“Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.”

World States Policy Capacity Police Institutions Protection Operations Strings Foreign Policy Heartless Dreary Police State Free World

Author:Michael Parenti

“The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.”

Government Form Spirit Interest Party Modern Ordinary Tasks Congress Various Operations Regulation Principal Interfere Legislation Legislature Factions

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.”

Law Certain Names Community Liberty Members Deserve Universal Operations

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power.”

Source: The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton:

“The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.”

People Ifs Way Want Home Suffering Moral Blessing Accounts Faithful Operations Going Away Diligence Stay At Home Nuisance Away From Home

Book:Roughing It

Source: Roughing It

“Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.”

Thinking Way Kind Has Beens Use Names Term Computer Unique Mark Complicated Operations Sequence Jargon Macro

Book:Academic Instincts

Source: Academic Instincts

“The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.”

Years Age Next Goal Middle Calm Israel Operations Palestinian Middle Ages Gaza

Author:Michael Ben-Ari

“You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.”

Thinking Believe May Art Different Play Form Sound Quality Records Magic Modern Produce Musician Add Speed Operations Subtle Echoes Backwards Symphony Filters Acoustics Multiplicity

Author:Daphne Oram

“I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.”

Made Said Doctors Video Knees Operations

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan [on screen: Operation 'Greet Us As Liberators']. It was so simple: Go in with 100,000 troops, topple the regime, everybody loves us, and we leave by Easter 2003. These ex-military men have their right to their opinions, that's fine. They just shouldn't voice them during a war [on screen: 'Loose Lips Sink Approval Ratings']”

“Twelve years ago my mother gets her cataracts removed. So twelve years ago the doctor gives her these enormous sunglasses to wear to protect her eyes from the sun for 4-6 weeks after the operation...twelve years ago. She still wears them. She thinks they're attractive. She looks like Bea Arthur as a welder.”

Thinking Giving Years Looks Stills Eye Mother Sun Week Protect Years Ago Doctors Enormous Operations Attractive Twelve Her Eyes Arthur Sunglasses

Author:Judy Gold

“Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results”

Littles Results Situation Roles Audience Plans Operations Intervention Programmers Planners Executing

Author:Brian Eno

“The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'”

Said Government Millions Authority Dollars Operations Comment Fraud Federal Government Accused Involving Coalitions Adorable Investigating Contractor Allegations

Author:Amy Poehler

“There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]”

“While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.”

Values Economic Industry Plant Operations Profile Processing Call Center

Author:Alan Autry

“Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.”

“And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban - I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban - no, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”

Needs Trying May Persons Doe Games House Process Understanding Sides Party Example Republican Messages Command Operations Republican Party Taliban Insurgency Frontline

Author:Pete Sessions

“You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity”

Knows Mean Levels Television Diversity News Areas Organization Radio Newspapers Magazines Operations Print Parity Television News

Author:Connie Chung

“I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.”

Quality Scales Operations Multiple Decrease Grasping Large Scale

Author:David Chang

“Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.”

Real Courses Israel Operations

Author:Tzipi Livni

“It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.”

Running Clear Effects Operations Viet Cong Hanoi

Author:William Westmoreland

“There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Cutting Seeing Easier Capable Forgiveness Forgiving Operations Get Better Flawed

Author:Robin Quivers

“There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.”

Differences Chance Pure Behavior Operations

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.”

Humans Mother Tradition Jew Scales Operations Genocide Unusual Pie Cherries Massacres Mother Love Old Traditions Cherry Pie

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.”

Results Courage Military Despair British Superiors Operations Resolution Military Operations

Author:Mercy Otis Warren

“By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.”

War America Fear Friends Regard Independence Operations Declaration Negotiation Foe Respectable Declaration Of Independence

Author:Mercy Otis Warren

“My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.”

People Heart Home Hands Night Doors Operations Nerves Calming Brits Sleepless Nights

Author:Bobby Sands

“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.”

Ifs Two Law Duty Conflict Essence Court Operations Department Provinces Judicial Judiciary Judicial Branch Judicial Review

Author:John Marshall

“Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.”

Mean Ends Whole Values Process Study Activity Ultimate Significant Operations Ingredients Identical Subordinates

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.”

Moments Facts Together Law Life Is Mother Hurt Struggle Loneliness Misery Profound Dues Operations Get Away Allowing Truth Of Life Womb Avoided Laws Of Life

Book:Memories of Malgudi

Source: Memories of Malgudi

“The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation. Christ, the son begotten by God, is the first-born who is succeeded by an ever-increasing number of younger brothers and sisters. There are, however, neither begotten by the Holy Ghost nor born of a virgin. . . . Their lowly origin (possibly from the mammals) does not prevent them from entering into a close kinship with God as their father and Christ as their brother.”

“Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.”

“Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.”

People Trying Government Running Democracy Operations Friendly Als Afghanistan Al Qaeda Afghan

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”

“The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.”

May Soul Action Causes Growth Cases Property Plant Tendencies Operations Inward

Book:Discourses on the philosophy of religion: addresses to doubters who wish to believe

Source: Discourses on the philosophy of religion: addresses to doubters who wish to believe

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.”

Believe Book Ability Talent Fame Pages Glory Recognition Operations History Books Spacecraft Talents And Abilities

Author:Alan Shepard