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I did not support Operation Desert Fox. -- Janeane Garofalo
I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National. -- Norma McCorvey
I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z. -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. -- Leopold Trepper
The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.' -- David Letterman
Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative. -- Menachem Begin
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. -- Ron Wyden
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. -- George Bernard Shaw
The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy. -- Henry Giroux
Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country -- Barack Obama
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. -- Jay Leno
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. -- Dan Quayle
The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off The Front Page. -- Jay Leno
The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the '80s. -- Annie Jacobsen
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda. -- John Boehner
[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence. -- Scott Ritter
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. -- Roma Downey
Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater". -- David Letterman
The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.' -- Jimmy Fallon
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult. -- John Boehner
Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used. -- Eric Holder
Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life. -- Stephen Kinzer
You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured. -- Tatiana de Rosnay
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree. -- Joschka Fischer
It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York. -- Stephen Kinzer
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south. -- Greg Walden
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. -- Roma Downey
The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council. -- George H. W. Bush
I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy. -- Norma McCorvey
One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government. -- Connie Sellecca
Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey? -- Roger Wicker
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I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious. -- Syd Barrett
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. -- John Ruskin
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. -- Henny Youngman
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. -- Joey Bishop
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. -- Dag Hammarskjold
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. -- Alvin Adams
There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you. -- Raymond Bonner
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. -- Albert Einstein
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. -- Leonard Bailey
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. -- William Godwin
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. -- Walt Kelly
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. -- Sam Walton
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better. -- Gary Wolf
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. -- Walter Chrysler
The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. -- Bill Gates
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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate. -- Dolly Parton
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead. -- Joel Salatin
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation. -- Mark Skousen
To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public. -- Natalie Massenet
I guarantee you that the people who watch 'Conan O'Brien' or who watch 'Entertainment Tonight' and probably a lot of these other programs have never heard of Operation Blessing. Maybe they have heard of UNICEF, and I'm sure they have heard of the Red Cross, but they haven't heard of this organization. -- John Tesh
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. -- Colin Powell
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. -- Saint Basil
Art needs an operation -- Tristan Tzara
Love is co-operation rather than competition. -- Wayne Dyer
To the patient, any operation is momentous. -- Joseph Murray
To the patient, any operation is momentous. -- Joseph Murray
Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation. -- Ludwig von Mises
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. -- Michael Pollan
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Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases. -- Tacitus
Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal. -- Kenneth Tynan
We are now after 7 months operation making money here. -- Henry Wells
... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation! -- Eda LeShan
My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. -- Bill Gates
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse. -- Mahatma Gandhi
At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'. -- Mooji
You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame. -- Kool Keith
True faith goes into operation when there are no answers. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation. -- Eric Alterman
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really. -- Russell Brand
Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. -- Scott Westerfeld
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. -- Lou Gramm
I was part of a sting operation. We busted some bees. -- Jarod Kintz
I never say of an operation that it is without danger. -- August Bier
A minor operation is one that is done on someone else -- Richard Selzer
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping. -- Harri Holkeri
Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship. -- Stephen Colbert
We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible. -- David Karp
Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable. -- Lionel Jospin
So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. -- Sun Tzu
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. -- Ambrose Bierce
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much. -- Zubin Mehta
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. -- William Godwin
The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead. -- Steve Martin
You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation. -- Andrew Taylor
The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation. -- Larry Ziegler
Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. -- George Herbert
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target. -- Stephen Hadley
terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation -- Michael Harris PhD
This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation. -- Thomas S. Monson
The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought -- Jean Metzinger
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. -- Henri Matisse
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself. -- Napoleon Hill
Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. -- Freida Pinto
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. -- Irvin S. Cobb
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. -- Murray Rothbard

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