System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go…
— Mark Twain
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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems…
— Guy Debord
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Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would…
— H. L. Mencken
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Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to…
— Mark Levin
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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.…
— Vera Nazarian
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Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.
— Steig Larsson
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As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to…
— Orson Scott Card
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
— Dorothy Day
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I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly…
— Darin Strauss
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Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the…
— Ally Carter
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will…
— William Faulkner
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Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.
— Tim Ferriss
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The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
— Milton Friedman
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Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my Super Sexy Miracle…
— Janet Evanovich
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If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental…
— Carl Jung
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If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write…
— Garth Stein
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We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from…
— Mark Levin
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Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that…
— Jack Kerouac
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The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you…
— George Orwell
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