"Opus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Firesia, poteras ventura, sed, Arge, In fatum haud poteras sat vigil esse tuum Sed vivit nomen semper cum sole vigebit, Immemor Astrologi non erit ulla dies Saecla canent laudes, quas si percurrere cones, Arte opus est, Stellas qua numerare soles Haereat hoc carmen cinerum custodibus urnis, Hospes quod spargens marmora rore legat. "Hic situs est, dignus nunquam cecidisse Propheta; Fatorum interpres fata inopina subit. Versari aethereo dum vixit in orbe ...
— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly
... naturalis amator; post dimissum opus civicum requiem in Africae solitudinibus nuper quaesivit ubi in feras terrae non minore animo, successu haud minore, ferrum exacuit quam in malos saeculi ...
— African and European Addresses • Theodore Roosevelt
... action to create or maintain a situation will take the form of a military operation. An operation, in the basic sense, is merely an act, or a series of acts. The word is derived from the Latin opus, meaning "work". A military operation is therefore an act, or a series of included acts (i.e., work), of a military character. A military operation may consist of an entire campaign, or even of several such, constituting a clearly defined major stage in a war; or such an operation may consist of ...
— Sound Military Decision • U.s. Naval War College
... Cardan's part shows that he knew of Suisset only by hearsay. The title of the copy of Suisset in the British Museum stands "Subtilissimi Doctoris Anglici Suiset. Calculationes Liber," Padue [1485]. Brunet gives one, "Opus ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... government; free labor unions (authorized in April 1977); Workers Confederation or CC.OO; the Socialist General Union of Workers or UGT and the smaller independent Workers Syndical Union or USO; business and landowning interests; the Catholic Church; Opus Dei; university students ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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