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The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys. -- Ally Carter
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative. -- Ron Ziegler
I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative. -- Clint Howard
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places. -- Samantha Power
And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative. -- Mike Curb
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live. -- Tullian Tchividjian
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.' -- Jeff Greenfield
The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. -- Leland Stanford
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work. -- Harvey Cushing
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. -- Sarah Palin
Unless some other factor is operative, in large, weak and underpopulated states, the luxury of ostentation prevails over that of comfort; but in countries which are more populous than extensive, the luxury of comfort always diminishes ostentation. -- Cesare Beccaria
If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. -- Patricia Sun
The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust. -- Hans Jonas
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. -- Edward Zwick
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about. -- Tucker Carlson
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that. -- Robert Harris
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.' -- Margaret Atwood
I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal. -- Beau Willimon
When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there. -- Srikumar Rao
Rocks are more co-operative than people. -- Barry Webster
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. -- Leland Stanford
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one. -- Andrew Vachss
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. -- Leland Stanford
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! -- John Keats
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished. -- Alfred Thayer Mahan
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. -- Sun Tzu
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. -- Leland Stanford
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter. -- Robert Baden-Powell
I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative. -- Edmund Hillary
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist. -- Stanley Milgram
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. -- Joel Salatin
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer. -- Henry David Thoreau
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep. -- Jeff Greenfield
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality. -- Bryan Stevenson
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is. -- Michael Beckwith
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children -- Christopher Wills
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. -- Leland Stanford
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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. -- Albert Camus
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama. -- Thornton Wilder
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life. -- Francis Bacon
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other. -- Leland Stanford
Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this. -- Georgia Harkness
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. -- Barbara Sher
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. -- Henry Wotton
White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine. -- Andy Borowitz
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community. -- John Zerzan
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action. -- John Henry Newman
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off. -- Robin Williams
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast. -- Jack Welch
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family. -- Lois Wyse
The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans. -- James Carville
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. -- Leland Stanford
There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma. -- Frederick Lenz
There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma. -- Frederick Lenz
Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order. -- Kofi Annan
Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen. -- Peter Marshall

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