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But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it — everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' — you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Amy Goodman

Media, Names, Iraq

"Independent Media in a Time of War". Documentary Video, 2003.

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An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

Patrick Lencioni

Integrity, Organization, Healthy

Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

Carly Simon

Cancer, Scar, Kind

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We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the March quarter. That brings cumulative payments under our capital return program to $66 billion.

Peter Oppenheimer

Cash Flow, Return, March

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It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

H. L. Mencken

Taken, Responsibility, Men

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The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought

Jean Metzinger

Real, World, Visible

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I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick, the first and only thing that will be directly changed by my magical operation will be me. Once I am changed, then the new changed me will then somehow affect or attract the desired object of my operation.

Lon Milo DuQuette

Believe, Self, Wish

Lon Milo DuQuette (2011). “Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is”, p.27, Llewellyn Worldwide

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The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

Victor Davis Hanson

Military, Fighting, Technology

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This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to write out the operation. They can thus carryout an abstract mental operation and acquire a kind of natural and spontaneous inclination for mental calculations.

Maria Montessori

Children, Moving, Writing

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There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

Robert Owen

Happiness, Happy, Men

"The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.

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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

William Robertson Smith

Religious, Strong, Alive

William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.404, Transaction Publishers

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If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

Joel Salatin

Animal, Knees, Joints

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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

J. C. R. Licklider

Science, Men, Thinking

"In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Benjamin Graham

Safety, Promise, Analysis

Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.35, Harper Collins

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In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men

Jim Garrison

Men, Gun, Numbers

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My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the centre , it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.

Thomas Troward

Moving, Mean, Past

"The Wisdom of Thomas Troward".

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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Jerry Pournelle

Stupid, People, Done

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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.

Voltairine de Cleyre

War, Believe, Missing

"In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation". Voltairine de Cleyre's Address in Philadelphia, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. December 16, 1893.

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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.

Richard Lewontin

Mean, Answers, Scientist

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

Warren Hern

People, Abortion, Physicians

American Medical News, September 5, 1994.

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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.

Pandita Ramabai

Motivational, God, Real

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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.

Daniel Pauly

Motivation, Common Sense, Elements

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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.

Duane Gish

Origin Of Life, Order, Law

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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.

L. E. J. Brouwer

Essence, Mind, Foundation

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

Samuil Shatunovsky

Jobs, Math, Arithmetic

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