System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are…
— Nora Roberts
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Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
— Brian Selznick
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Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system…
— Paul Krugman
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The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to…
— Michelle Alexander
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While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned…
— Henry Jenkins
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The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually…
— Dennis Lehane
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You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
— Brian Greene
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Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only…
— Jodi Picoult
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A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;…
— John Gresham Machen
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We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own…
— Brother Yun
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When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the…
— Libba Bray
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The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I’m fourteen.†– Nick “Yeah…†– Acheron “Ash, I’m fourteen.†– Nick “Got it. You’re fourteen.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The…
— William S. Burroughs
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What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
— Anne Frank
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Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents,…
— Mark Millar
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As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I…
— Emile M. Cioran
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you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang…
— Scott Westerfeld
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