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The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. — Leland Stanford
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:… — Henry Wotton
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one. — Andrew Vachss
Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times.… — Chris Prentiss
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male,… — Frederick Lenz
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will… — John Henry Newman
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea,… — Jack Welch
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea… — Edward Zwick
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. — Leland Stanford
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation… — Leland Stanford
It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason'....The earliest printed use so far traced comes… — John Hamill
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in… — John Hamill
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real… — Thornton Wilder
The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear… — Dave Barry
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a… — Johannes Rau
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear. — Frederick Lenz
The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they… — Frederick Lenz
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you… — Frederick Lenz
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished. — Alfred Thayer Mahan
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. — Leland Stanford
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in… — Leland Stanford
It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should… — Pratibha Patil
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back… — Vince Cable
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep. — Jeff Greenfield
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist. — Stanley Milgram

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