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  • Henry Louis Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Burton Richter As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • William S. Burroughs Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Raymond Holliwell Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • William James If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Andrew Grove If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Anthony Hecht Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Hazlitt The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bob Filner With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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