#operations

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. ↗

— Adam Smith

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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

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