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I've been operated on 13 times. -- Eric Davis
I am truly independently owned and operated. -- Bret Michaels
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. -- Honore de Balzac
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine. -- Ahmed Yassin
Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. -- Joseph P. Kennedy
Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. -- Gerry Spence
In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe. -- Niki Lauda
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. -- Tom Stoppard
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open. -- Damian Lewis
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. -- David Attenborough
Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. -- Thomas Frank
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. -- Remy de Gourmont
When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently. -- Alan Dershowitz
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. -- Seth Shostak
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view. -- Steve Albini
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. -- Oswald Spengler
When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight. -- Nikola Tesla
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. -- B. F. Skinner
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. -- Calvin Trillin
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. -- James Lind
I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment. -- Eric Davis
Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals. -- Al Sharpton
At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance. -- Colin Angle
I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. -- Rupert Murdoch
Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse? -- Steven Wright
Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws. -- James Siegel
Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss. -- Peter Ustinov
The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world. -- Paul Hawken
The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded. -- Mark Victor Hansen
I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth. -- Milton Berle
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. -- Alexander Hamilton
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly. -- Courtney Summers
For Christmas the just came out with a battery-operated battery. But the batteries aren't included. -- Milton Berle
If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea. -- William Booth
In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's. -- Tommy John
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. -- Bernard Bailyn
The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular. -- John Grant
My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. -- Eminem
I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world. -- Rosemary Clement-Moore
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. -- Terry Pratchett
In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy. -- Lynsi Torres
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated? -- Arundhati Roy
Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time. -- Megan Smith
No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit. -- Ludwig von Mises
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. -- Timothy Noah
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated -- Frederick Sommer
During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. -- G. Edward Griffin
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities. -- Lance Armstrong
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. " Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing. -- Scott Anderson
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. -- Louis D. Brandeis
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. -- Sean Penn
When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks. -- Lloyd Dorfman
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That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom. -- James C. Scott
Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals. -- Henry Beard
The reason the American people don't trust Hillary Clinton is they're looking at the pay to play politics she operated with the Clinton foundation through the private server. -- Mike Pence
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. -- Gerry Spence
I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy. -- Pierre Trudeau
I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation. -- John Barrasso
Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance. -- Eduardo Paes
Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession. -- Alphonsus Liguori
With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing. -- John Collison
When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time. -- Kieran Hebden
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
I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated. -- Allan Savory
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. -- James A. Baldwin
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England -- Bernard Baruch
I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes. -- Barack Obama

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