#opera

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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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

#about #allies #because #cause #did

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canadian #concrete #confidence #evidence #expanding

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#co-operation #company #employees #even #industrial

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#funny #humor #opera #stabbed #funny

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#best #deterrent #excellence #how #i

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

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The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#differ #essentially #major #much #operate

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#any #because #entire #i #interested

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#accustomed #basis #behavior #beings #cooperate