#intervention

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

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Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

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[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak. ↗

— Thomas Cushman

#intervention #iraq #iraq-war #liberalism #iraq

Nothing fucks up a religion like an intervention from a real God. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#intervention #religion #truth #love

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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