Operations Quotes - Page 17

• Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Ankles, Three, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

  Eric Holder

  Justice, Tactics, Execution

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• All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

  Hu Jintao

  Innovation, Chinese, Treatment

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

  Stephen Hadley

  Military, Command And Control, Target

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• Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

  Mike Jackson

  Soldier, Months, Figures

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• Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  Mike Jackson

  Military, Campaigns, Friction

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• What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework of the United Nations and follow the fundamental principles of international laws.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Law, Principles, Fundamentals

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• It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

  Keith Olbermann

  Nbc, Media, Cnn

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• [I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.

  William DeVries

  Heart, Science, Nervous

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• The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Stress, Believe

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• But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Agency, Iran, Community

  "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.

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• It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, Iraq, Support

  "A Critic's Defeatist Rhetoric" by David Asman, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

  Scott Ritter

  Government, Issues, Going Out

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• Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

  Dan Quayle

  Peace, War, Mistake

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• Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

  Jaron Lanier

  Expression, Google, Links

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• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

  Jay Sekulow

  War, Law, Slavery

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• 'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge And Power, Regulation, Truth Is

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Important, Hollywood

  "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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• The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

  Meles Zenawi

  Mistake, Stupid, Population

  "Interview: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi". Interview with Alex Perry, content.time.com. September 6, 2007.

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• Bitcoin is getting there. But it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Running, Government, Income

  "Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did". Personal Blog, falkvinge.net. April 03, 2013.

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• But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

  John McCain

  Numbers, America, Long

  "McCain Softens Abortion Stand". www.washingtonpost.com. August 24, 1999.

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• You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Military, War, Soldier

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• The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Expression, Numbers, Musical

  "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Book by L.F. Menabrea. Scientific Memoirs (Richard Taylor): 694, 1842.

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• NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

  Charles Petzold

  Space, Causes, Instruction

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• Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

  Terrence McNally

  Mom, People, Kind

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