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• If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

  Miranda July

  Phones, Law, People

  "No One Belongs Here More Than You". Book by Miranda July, November 2, 2005.

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• Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

  B. C. Forbes

  Golf, Boys, Talking

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• To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed and, by the way, unexplained sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.>>.

  George Carlin

  Military, Thinking, World

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

  Anne Carson

  Liars, Lying, Mean

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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• He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

  John Barth

  Secret, Wish, Lovers

  L. Rust Hills, John Barth (1974). “Writer's choice”, Modern Library

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air, People, Emergencies

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• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

  William Gibson

  Children, Technology, Cyberspace

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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• Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Clerks, Needs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.25, Routledge

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• Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

  Melina Marchetta

  Listening, Tone, Excuse

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• I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

  Rachel Cohn

  Morse Code, Signals, Given

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.36, Egmont UK

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• My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Grandfather, Tanks

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• Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Funny Love, Best Love, Giving

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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Years, Rose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

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• Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Succeed

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

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• I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Should, Said

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, People, Violence

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.183, Tara Publishing

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• It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Order, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”

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