Famous quotes containing the words operative and/or paragraph:
“In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more; while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The camera can photograph thought. It’s better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.”
—Dirk Bogarde (b. 1921)
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