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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. -- Lawrence Durrell
I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off. -- David Axelrod
The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. -- Stephen Kinzer
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened. -- Peter Schiff
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. -- Jim Gerlach
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do. -- Peter Capaldi
In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. -- Noam Chomsky
You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. -- Tom A. Watson
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law. -- Abigail Washburn
If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. -- Katherine Harris
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. -- Katherine Paterson
Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. -- Carol Thatcher
Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions. -- Mariana Mazzucato
India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people. -- Steven Furtick
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it. -- Phyllis Bottome
When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him. -- Laura Hillenbrand
If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. -- Simon Sinek
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution. -- W. Cleon Skousen
In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells. -- Evo Morales

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