System Quotes

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Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten. — Jodi Picoult
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.… — Barry Goldwater
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead,… — Jodi Picoult
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. . . listen, there… — J R Ward
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the… — Robert A. Heinlein
That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and… — Obert Skye
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor… — Douglas Adams
she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing. — Haruki Murakami
A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again. — Wayne Dyer
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front… — Sarah Palin
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the… — Joseph Campbell
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes,… — Nick Hornby
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill… — Gabrielle Zevin
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. — Charles Stross
yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system — Orson Scott Card
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money. — Gregory David Roberts

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