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“Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it. I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated. She believes that co-operation would entirely supplant competition; I hold that competition in one form or another will always exist, and that it is highly desirable it should.”

Should Believe War Form Individual Wish Missing Authority Competition Property Privilege Operations Communist Desirable

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.”

Character Found Challenges Models Europe Difficulty Climate International Seeking Connected Operations

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.”

Mean Turns Asks Difficult Answers Cases Consequence Scientist Available Operations Right Questions

Author:Richard Lewontin

“Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.”

People Done Regard Operations Abortion Physicians Incompetent

Author:Warren Hern

“People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.”

People Real God Motivational Form Seeing Hearing Scales Kingdoms Operations Women Empowerment Imperfect Nevertheless Kingdom Of God Demonstration

Author:Pandita Ramabai

“We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.”

Havens Policy Safe Terrorist Objectives Operations Collecting Safe Haven Counter Terrorism

Author:Cofer Black

“It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.”

Thinking Way Should Mind Has Beens Would Be Age United Various Medical Kingdoms Operations Sensible United Kingdom Medical History

Author:Martin Fleischmann

“Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.”

“Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd… The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.”

Has Beens Made Problem Law Life Is Order Process Natural Theory Statements Absurd Operations Sufficient Immense Spontaneous No Problem Origin Of Life Thermodynamics

Author:Duane Gish

“One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.”

Ifs Mind Would Be Left Language Study Activity Essence Accounts Mathematics Foundation Mathematical Operations Delving

Author:L. E. J. Brouwer

“It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.”

Jobs Mathematics Math Mathematical Operations Mathematician Accountants Arithmetic Mathematics By Mathematicians Funny Mathematics Math Love Math And Love

Author:Samuil Shatunovsky

“[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.”

“The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.”

Done Ability Keys Highest Standards Operations Execution Things Done Getting Things Done

Book:What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World

Source: What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World

“By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.”

Should Trying Ends Use Force Party Conflict Authority International Operations Combat Civilians Provision Casualties Charter Citing Jurisprudence Civilian Casualties

Author:Bhikkhu Bodhi

“Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.”

Country Spirit Difficult Ability Situation Operations Glances Audacious Cavalry

Book:Reveries on the Art of War

Source: Reveries on the Art of War

“Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.”

Ifs Important Eye Kings Medicine Operations Prime Surgery Surgeons

Author:Fred Hollows

“No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.”

Spirit Perfect Mistake Holy Direct Operations Holy Spirit Portions Miraculous

Author:Walter Lang

“Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.”

Littles Creatures Operations Beloved Pens Pigs Lambs Calves Forlorn Fluffy Livestock

Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.”

“But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.”

Long Made Philosophy Fun Pleasure Subjects Discovery Satisfaction Operations Reaching Agreement Barren

Author:J. L. Austin

“To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.”

Spiritual Attention Consciousness Meditation Awareness Awakening Operations Spiritual Awakening

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.”

World Years May America Past Numbers Modern Figures Demand Operations Cents Surgery Modern World Jordan Risen Cosmetics Marshes Cosmetic Surgery

Author:Michael Gove

“Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.”

Men Firsts Ideas Bigs Form Suffering Progress Sacrifice Strength He Man Materials Shapes Fame Machines Dollars Fortune Accomplish Operations Sweat Devoted Raw Materials Big Ideas Muster

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.”

Mind Sides Church Brain Influence Crime Stupidity Supreme Operations Incompetence Sloth Sanctify

Book:The Profits of Religion

Source: The Profits of Religion

“Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.”

I Can War Agree Financial Decades Operations Iran Contracts Turkeys

Author:Joschka Fischer

“I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.”

Behinds Trouble Operations

Author:Ken Brett

“We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.”

Different Order Courses Simple Quality Principles Effects Words Of Wisdom Arise Operations Naturalist Recourse

Author:David Hume

“Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.”

Air Operations Aviation Bus Airline Transport

Author:Michael O'Leary

“It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.”

Important Courses Energy Interest Interesting Experience Importance Mathematics Math Statements Being True Occasions Mathematical Operations Propositions Tautology

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.”

Source: Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”

Said Two Understanding Instinct Intuition Math Operations Rely Acquisition Deductions Hunches

Book:RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY

Source: RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY

“Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.”

World Used Force Realizing Numbers Duty Training Bases Scales Operations Offensive Navy Marine Marine Corps Counterparts Naval Large Scale

Author:Lynn Montross

“Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of goodwill in the vital civic action and pacification work among the tortured populace of South Vietnam.”

Men Has Beens Action Young South Operations Young Man Combat Vietnam Marine Outstanding Goodwill Civics Ambassadors Marine Corps

Author:Lewis William Walt

“How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?”

States Problem Home Body Example Operations Thrive Eliminating Going Home Shutting Down

Author:Greg Sams

“A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.”

“It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little . . . We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work . . . in order to free their hold.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs May Littles Made Feelings Order Understanding Differences Emotion Teach Willing Conscious Operations Self Knowledge Components Pedagogy

Author:Mary Caroline Richards

“Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus.”

Ifs Way Made Problem Choices Easy Policy Impact Unity Operations Greek Crucial Consensus Greece Wellbeing Crossroads Way Forward

Author:Lucas Papademos

“First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

People Way Want Firsts Ideas Language Novel Written Computer Program Machines Mediums Operations Formal Computer Language Methodology Expressing Ideas

Author:Hal Abelson

“Shannen Rossmiller's work in exposing Islamic terrorists has genuinely made our country safer. She has dedicated her life to combating the terrorist threat against the United States and has amazingly been able to infiltrate and actually stop terrorist operations. Our entire country owes her an immeasurable debt of gratitude.”

Made Country States Able United United States Gratitude Threat Debt Terrorist Our Country Operations Islamic Dedicated Exposing Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Steven Emerson

“As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.”

War Fighting Winning Force Roles Special Essentials Terror Operations War On Terror Special Operations

Author:Robin Hayes

“Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.”

Years Long Term Pay Company Successful Keys Months Percent Patient Making Money Operations Long Term Be Patient Correlation Disparity Successful Company

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.”

Emotion Stage Development Office Decided Operations Pregnancy Rescue Stirring Dallas

Author:Norma McCorvey

“I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.”

Computer Operations Rescue Operators

Author:Norma McCorvey

“You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.”

World Looks Made Car Financial Architecture Operations Airplane Railroads Steamboats

Author:Walter Russell

“We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.”

Interest Views Security Ready International Terrorism Operations Stability Engagement National Interests Safeguarding

Author:Li Peng

“You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.”

Want Aspect Operations Stability

Author:Andrew Taylor

“A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.”

Ifs Opportunity Company Ordinary Excellence Very Good Operations Extras

Author:Marcel Herrmann Telles

“Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.”

Ideas Action Courses Games Plans Position Demand Definitions Chess Operations Thoughts And Actions

Author:Alexander Kotov

“Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him....he prescribed the juice treatment....By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again.”

Years Self Felt Heard Fit Doctors Tests Cancer Despite Operations Treatment Appetite Drs Juice Old Self

Author:Jurgen Neukirch

“The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.”

Chess Objectives Operations Occupation Files

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch