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• I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Winning, Talking

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• There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

  Robert Breault

  God, Miracle, Normal

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• People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, People, Looks

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• The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Sea, Luxury

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• Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Political, Groups, Fields

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• People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Drug, Matter

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

  Susie Orbach

  Political, Body, Fit

  "Ad men today are wrong on body size" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

  Danica McKellar

  May, Medical, Surprise

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Party, Needs, Third Parties

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.250, Random House

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• I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Opportunity, Destiny, Interesting

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.22, A&C Black

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• He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Medical, Sexiness, Turns

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• That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

  Robin Hobb

  Government, Desire, Needs

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.140, Spectra

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

  Alain de Botton

  Memories, Lying, Leaving

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Divine, Divine Intervention

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Scaramouche (Diversion Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

  William Carlos Williams

  Forgiveness, Done, Has Beens

  William Carlos Williams (1967). “Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Prayer gives you opportunity to praise God and to request His divine intervention in your life and/or the lives of others. Prayer allows you to glorify His Name and also provides an avenue for you to be filled with joy.

  John C. Broger

  Prayer, Opportunity, Names

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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• Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Military, Years

  "Cruz jumps into Iraq discussion" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 18, 2014.

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• The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

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• TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fate, Cutting, Wish To Die

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

  Anne Rice

  Race, Ideas, Evil

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

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• Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Gin And Tonic, Gin

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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