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«In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.»
«The reason the Yankees never lay an egg is because they don't operate on chicken feed.»
«Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.»
«Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.»
«It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.»
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
«Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet»
Author: Jim Rohn (Author, Speaker) | Keywords: hatchet, operate, operate on
«Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.»
Author: Mae West (Actress) | About: Love | Keywords: Five Days, industry, operate, operate on
«I hope you're all Republicans. (To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981.)»
«It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.»