Operations Quotes

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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  Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Time, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Historical, West

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.171, Vintage

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• When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Health, Doctors

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• The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

  Jay Leno

  War, Names, Political

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• A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

  James Madison

  Political, Liberty, United States

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

  Norman Mailer

  Smart, Hands, Novelists

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• Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Amusement, Film

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• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

  George Santayana

  Get Well, Mind, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

  Pete Townshend

  Order, People, Theatre

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• How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Workout, Two

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• As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

  George Whitefield

  Long, Miracle, Tongue

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.227, CCEL

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Evidence, Involved

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Israel, People, Crime

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• Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

  William Godwin

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.261

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• Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Army

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.213, Adams Media

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• Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Educational

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Type, Wells

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• I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

  Sidney Hook

  Judging, Society, Liberty

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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• Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

  James Mill

  Government, Details, Should

  James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”

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• While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

  Alan Autry

  Economic, Profile, Plant

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

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• It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

  William Westmoreland

  Running, Hanoi, Clear

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