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• I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

  Mehmet Oz

  Tombstone, Heart, Numbers

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• The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, War, Mass Destruction

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• Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

  Ralph Nader

  Hands, Numbers, America

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Men, Evil

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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• In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

  Isaac Asimov

  Finite Number, Data, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Kuwait, Storm

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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

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• Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Way, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

  Ali Larter

  Dream, Fun, Drama

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

  Semir Zeki

  Strong, Greed, Brain

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• I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

  Lester Sumrall

  Men, Years, Earth

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• We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

  Boaz Ganor

  Agreement, Organization, Essentials

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• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Zero, Men, Political

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

  Alan Turing

  Ideas, Machines, Done

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 436, 1950.

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• The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

  David Mamet

  Stress, Dust, Focus

  David Mamet (2009). “Faustus”, p.16, Vintage

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• Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mother, Order, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!

  Jerry Brown

  War, Ties, Agency

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Player, Analogies, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.838, Xist Publishing

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• Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Normal, Dichotomy

  The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001), entry for 11 Oct 1977.

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• The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Benefits, Bases, Universal

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.132, VM eBooks

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• If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

  Paul Dirac

  Humble, Loss, Hands

  "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom". Book by Graham Farmelo, 2009.

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• Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Mean, Order, Harmony

  Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.151, AK Press

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