System Quotes

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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind. — Glenn Beck
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by… — Naomi Klein
How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers.… — Frank Beddor
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up… — Haruki Murakami
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless… — Benjamin Carson
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. — Cory Doctorow
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy… — Chuck Palahniuk
So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system. — Jeff Kinney
Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of… — Josh McDowell
All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay… — Jeaniene Frost
I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to… — Kate Bornstein
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. — Isaac Newton
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of… — Derrick Jensen
Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out… — John Kennedy Toole
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so… — Alan Watts
The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same… — George Seldes
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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