Operations Quotes - Page 33

• If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Legs, May, Safe

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

  David Letterman

  Names, Yesterday, Decision

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• But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Community, Add

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.425, Executive Intelligence Review

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• By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Communication, Ties, Unions

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Office, Patents

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield

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• This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Mean, Pride

  Marcel Proust (1949). “Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained”

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• A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It
  ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,
  forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Wine, Imagination

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [103]

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• An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Men, Rocks

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• My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Independent, Guiding Principles, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Political Centre (Great Britain) (1988). “CPC [publications].”

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• You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Europe, Germany

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• The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.

  Bill Maher

  Successful, President, Lasts

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

  Steve Kerr

  Running, Team, Player

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. March 13, 2007.

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• I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Mother, Dream

  "Malala's diary / "I am afraid"". Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger, 10 October 2012, www.bbc.com. January 3, 2009.

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• Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Giving, Sick

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I did not support Operation Desert Fox.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Support, Desert, Foxes

  "Fox News" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. Februay 23, 2003.

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• What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of labor in the long run best serves the selfish concerns of all individuals. The eminence of the market society is that its whole functioning and operation is the consummation of this principle.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Selfish, Division Of Labor

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• The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Men, Age

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

  John Cage

  Blood, Years, Two

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• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

  Freida Pinto

  Somewhere Else, Doctors, Order

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Inspiration, People, Tolerance

  "Wadah Khanfar: 'Be patient with the Arab World'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Quality, Needs, Punctuality

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

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• The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Challenges, Age, Principles

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• Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.

  Christopher Isham

  Atheist, Lying, Ideas

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• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Order, Play

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

  Paul Fussell

  Country, Today, Publicity

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