System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3281 authors
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
— Edgar Mitchell
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We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving civilization. That is what we really must learn to do, in due course, if…
— Edgar Mitchell
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The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the…
— Mark Leibovich
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When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the…
— Mark Leibovich
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In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The…
— Teju Cole
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I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try…
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to…
— George Will
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My filing system is messy but orderly.
— Tony Benn
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We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep…
— John Naisbitt
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Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is…
— Tom Peters
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
— Aaron Huey
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
— Adam Davidson
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I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter…
— Nikola Tesla
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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and…
— John Lasseter
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We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape…
— Rusty Schweickart
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I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take…
— Willie Nelson
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Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from…
— Vladimir Putin
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The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
— Vladimir Putin
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development…
— Lech Walesa
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I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that…
— Brian Eno
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