Quotes with operate

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  • Ann Patchett Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Andrew Jackson The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Sebastian Faulks We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bob Keeshan We have respect for our audience.... We operate on the conviction that it is composed of young children of potentially good taste, and that this taste should be developed.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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