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• I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Winning, Talking

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• There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

  Robert Breault

  God, Miracle, Normal

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• La gente que pide constantemente la intervención del gobierno está echando sus problemas a la sociedad. Y la sociedad no existe. Hay hombres y mujeres individuales y hay familias. Y ningún gobierno puede hacer nada si no es a través de las personas, y las personas deben cuidar primero de sí mismas. Es nuestro deber cuidar de nosotros mismos y luego, también, cuidar de nuestros vecinos.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, People, Looks

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• Las antiguas colonias, en América Latina en particular, tienen más posibilidades que nunca de superar siglos de sometimiento, violencia e intervención extranjera, a los que han sobrevivido hasta ahora como dependencias con islas de lujo en un mar de miseria.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Sea, Luxury

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• Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Political, Groups, Fields

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• People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• Independientemente del programa federal que se elija -Seguridad Social, Medicare, Medicaid, la guerra contra las drogas, el impuesto sobre la renta y Hacienda, la educación, las intervenciones en el extranjero y las guerras-, todos son un gigantesco desastre.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Drug, Matter

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

  Susie Orbach

  Political, Body, Fit

  "Ad men today are wrong on body size" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

  Danica McKellar

  May, Medical, Surprise

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Party, Needs, Third Parties

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.250, Random House

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• Había aprendido lo suficiente de las experiencias de la vida como para comprender que las intervenciones del destino a veces pueden leerse como una invitación para que abordemos e incluso superemos nuestros mayores miedos. No hace falta ser un gran genio para reconocer que cuando las circunstancias te empujan a hacer lo que siempre has detestado y temido más específicamente, esto puede ser, como mínimo, una interesante oportunidad de crecimiento.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Opportunity, Destiny, Interesting

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). "Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage", p.22, A&C Black.

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• He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Medical, Sexiness, Turns

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• That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

  Robin Hobb

  Gobierno, Deseo, Necesidades

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.140, Spectra

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

  Alain de Botton

  Memories, Lying, Leaving

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Divine, Divine Intervention

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Scaramouche (Diversion Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

  William Carlos Williams

  Forgiveness, Done, Has Beens

  William Carlos Williams (1967). “Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Prayer gives you opportunity to praise God and to request His divine intervention in your life and/or the lives of others. Prayer allows you to glorify His Name and also provides an avenue for you to be filled with joy.

  John C. Broger

  Prayer, Opportunity, Names

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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• Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Military, Years

  "Cruz jumps into Iraq discussion" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 18, 2014.

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• El cuerpo se mueve de forma natural, automática, sin intervención personal ni conciencia. Si pensamos demasiado, nuestras acciones se vuelven lentas y vacilantes.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

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• TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fate, Cutting, Wish To Die

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

  Anne Rice

  Race, Ideas, Evil

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

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• Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Gin And Tonic, Gin

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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