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“I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”

“All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.”

Source: The Lessons of History

“So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.”

Film Father Growing Up Growing Middle Type Operations Preparing Consuming

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”

May Important Attention Majors Constant Operations Nurse Nursing Surgeons Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Inspirational Nurse Inspirational Nursing Brain Surgeons Cognitive Therapy Inspiring Nursing Nursing School Great Nursing Stethoscope

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.”

Art Sometimes Poetry Purpose Artist Space Attention Media Emotional Response Operations Performing Repeats Behaviour Provoking Time And Space Variation Simplify Emotional Response

Author:Ellen Dissanayake

“Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.”

Way Humans Art Poetry Offers Highest Standards Operations Poetry Is Human Experience Concise Conveying

Book:On Grief And Reason: Essays

Source: On Grief And Reason: Essays

“As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace.”

Spirit Powerful Grace Violence Holy Doctrine Operations Holy Spirit Subtlety Regeneration

Book:The Works of John Owen

Source: The Works of John Owen

“Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.”

Heart Soul Light Spiritual Sin Grace Objects Worship Raised Operations Flames Suitable Worship God Spiritual Light

Book:The Existence and Attributes of God

Source: The Existence and Attributes of God

“I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant.”

Knows Situation Morning Nice Involved Drink Okay Smell Coffee Operations Kitchen Pleasant Toasts

Author:Robert Duvall

“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.”

“The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.”

People Has Beens Said War Lists Terrorist Operations Remove Occupation Organisation Resisting Martyrdom Hamas

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.”

Writing Patient Operations Trifling

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.”

Ifs Men Firsts May Real Shows Might Religion Dies Successful He Man Understood Madness Warm Operations Description

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”

Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike; and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.”

Men Order Passion Study Judging Please Judgment Operations Disgusting Prevailing

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”

“A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.”

“One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!”

“The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.”

Reason Morality Behavior Operations

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“I never say of an operation that it is without danger.”

Danger Operations

Author:August Bier

“The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.”

Men Heart Spirit Religion Order Justice Danger Morality Office Silent Operations Motive Temperance Overlooked

Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

“Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.”

World Children Two Jobs Difficult Products Adults Resources Female Males Firm Operations Adulthood Steers Infancy Headache Merging

Book:The new peoplemaking

Source: The new peoplemaking

“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.”

Way Home Able Language Sound Failing Errors Stupidity Operations Accountability March Continents Tourists Back Home Tourism

Author:Don DeLillo

“Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.”

Mind Wonderful Function Madness Operations Machinery Astonishing Predictable Being Afraid Complication Simplification

Author:Kate Millett

“Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.”

May Has Beens Might Christian Form Religious Views Perspective Battle Essentials Finals Excited Determined Bother Operations Hostility Zeal Inconsistency Residual Mopping Mopping Up

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”

“Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.”

“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”

Ifs May Book Starting Ignorant Observation Operations Faculty Quantity Definite Observing

Book:American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology

Source: American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology

“It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.”

Want Should War Use Nations Lines Decision Levels Draws Program Critical Operations Capability Engaging Spy

Author:Edward Snowden

“No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Country States Turns Interest Lines United United States Plans Draws Independent Intention Arguing Operations Rely Allies Attacking Foreign Countries

Author:Edward Snowden

“The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.”

Humans Effects Internet Consequence Complexes Operations Offensive Complex Systems Unintended Consequences

Author:Edward Snowden

“The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.”

Consciousness Operations Apparitions

Author:Mooji

“Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'.”

Giving Should Children Helping Endure Very Good Following Operations Revelations Rainbow Family And Friends Scandal Coalitions Children Love Reverends

Author:Jon Stewart

“I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Kind Able Certain Gender Sexuality Operations Links Homosexuality Masculinity Femininity Trans Homophobia Forged Phobia Heterosexuality Gender And Sexuality

Author:Judith Butler

“Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations. And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or they have another purpose.”

“You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.”

Ifs Littles Courses Wonderful Brilliant Operations Initiative Outstanding

Book:Your Right to Be Rich

Source: Your Right to Be Rich

“There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.”

People Two Three Company Principles Successful Products Profit Operations Handful Successful Business Basic Principles

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.”

Military Ships Dawn Operations Cruise Odyssey Carnivals Cruise Ships Military Operations

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.”

Humans Government Faces Operations Royalty Human Faces

Author:Robert Runcie

“I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.”

“... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.”

Purpose Concepts Mathematics Operations Skillful

Book:Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses

Source: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses

“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.”

“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.”

“Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.”

Reason Medicine Operations Yield Touchstones

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.”

Ifs Forget Results Pay Attention Company Return Investing Pay Attention Operations Investors Dividends

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.”

Opposites Intelligent Investing Satisfaction Crowds Operations Investors

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.”

Thinking Accounts Investment Investing Operations

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.”

Believe Law Religion Fighting Evil Names Women Sin Divine Goodness Disease Misery Contrary Operations Urges Combat Divine Law

Author:Lily Montagu

“Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.”

“... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!”

Men Operations

Author:Eda LeShan

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