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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." »James Barrie
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"If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man." »John Milton
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"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few." »John Masefield
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"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin
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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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"One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency." »Med Jones
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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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