Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Military Leader
"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
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Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign."
John Cage
Composer, Musician
"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse."
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"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"
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"To the patient, any operation is momentous."
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"I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself."
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"Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation."
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"Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment."
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"The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good."
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"I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation."
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"Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage."
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"It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic."
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"Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil."
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"Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself."
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"Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?"
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"Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?"
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"A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together."
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"The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead."
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"I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor."
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"Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really."
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"Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort."
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"I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence."
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