Operations Quotes - Page 25

• The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

  Harry Partch

  Horse, Music Is, Lacking

  Harry Partch, Thomas McGeary (2000). “Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Able, Helping

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• The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

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• The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Political, Way

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• ... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Liberty

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

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• Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

  Lee Zeldin

  Home, Isis, Doe

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• The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

  Michael Parenti

  Agency, Publishing House, Media

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• I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

  Philip Larkin

  Unique, Technique, Needs

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Progress, Experts

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• I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.

  Karl Donitz

  Kings, Heart, Men

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• One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country is by just saying we're not going to buy Chinese foods until they get their system cleaned up. Admittedly it's a difficult system to get under control because an astonishing percentage - maybe 80 percent - of the foods in China are produced in small backyard operations.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Government, Safety

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.

  Ted Gup

  Rogues, Benefits, Levels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.

  Michael Klare

  Military, Oil, United States

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.

  Neal Boortz

  Retirement, Years, Government

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• When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

  Vernon Howard

  Simple, Worry, World

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• In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare.

  Charlene Li

  Two, Portal, Nightmare

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

  Stephen Kinzer

  New York, Islamic, Ajax

  "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror". Book by Stephen Kinzer, www.nytimes.com. 2003.

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• We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

  Ashton Carter

  Friendship, Country, Peace

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• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

  Freida Pinto

  Doctors, Somewhere Else, Mind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

  George Washington

  Mean, Offensive, Defence

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Country, Mean, Enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Men, Errors

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On War”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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