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• There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

  Colin Powell

  Country, War, Talking

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• In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

  Hugo Chavez

  Latin, Government, America

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• You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Trying, Fudge

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• Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

  Roger Zelazny

  Past, Years, Routine

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• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Addiction, Looks

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Sight, Perception

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Looks, Ultimate Questions

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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• He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

  Michael Foot

  Political, Rising, Politics

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• All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Drawing, Interesting

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty

  Frederic Bastiat

  Exercise, Understanding, Liberty

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• For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clouds, Evil, Shadow

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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Echoes, Doors

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, And Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Believe, Pudding

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• Christians and Jews go after those who have access to raw materials but who prevent access to them. Oil is the best example. The US and its allies are constantly intervening in countries where they don't belong only to defend their prosperity. We aren't fighting because we are greedy and selfish, rather we are fighting for values and morals.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Christian, Country, Selfish

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.

  Oliver DeMille

  Struggle, Government, World

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• I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Ideas, Filters

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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• You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Levels, Protect

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Uganda, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to feel that they had swapped one oppressive regime for another. The Iraqis did exchange one oppression for a lighter kind, in some ways.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Numbers, Way, Months

  Source: progressive.org

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• The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

  Theresa May

  Country, America, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we'll stop it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Iran, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this also involves a vicious internal war. There are many who believe the Alawites will fight to the death because they believe that, should they lose power, the majority would take, would show no compassion for them. They ruled that country for a long time, ruthlessly. It is a vicious civil war that makes one want to cry every day.

  John Kasich

  Country, War, Believe

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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