Intervention Quotes
280 quotes by 246 authors
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...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy…
— Noam Chomsky
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Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.
— Mike Jackson
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God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free…
— Peter Kreeft
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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the…
— Alexander Kluge
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The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although…
— Mark Zandi
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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the…
— Mark Zandi
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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have…
— Slavoj Žižek
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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…
— Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that…
— John W. Thompson
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No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do…
— Leonard Sweet
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Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.
— Gail Sheehy
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Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
— Chris Patten
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This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct…
— David Satcher
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Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a…
— Joseph Plaskett
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[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own.…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects…
— William E. Gladstone
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Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension…
— Bill Vaughan
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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama…
— Thomas Frank
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