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«Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | About: Life | Keywords: inexorably, operation
«It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.»
«It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!»
«Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.»
«Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.»
«One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.»
«Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation»
«Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes»
«In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.»
«Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.»

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