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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." »Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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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, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated." »Robert Collier
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"Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief." »Schopenhauer
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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