System Quotes

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Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This… — Joel Fuhrman
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but… — Jonathan Swift
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. — Edward de Bono
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either… — Nick Hornby
Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. — Stephen King
Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. — Mary McCarthy
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. — George Orwell
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize,… — Sophie Kinsella
The main character of any living system is openness. — Ilya Prigogine
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system… — Woodrow Wilson
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of… — Horace Greeley
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface… — Douglas Preston
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. — Josephine Baker
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old… — Eduardo Galeano
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree… — Marshall McLuhan
I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll… — Peter Cook
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply… — Flannery O'Connor

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