System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3297 authors
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Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure,…
— Lawrence Kubie
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It is not possible to create a perfect society for an imperfect man. Even if we transhipped the present man to a society where the…
— Sorin Cerin
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Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as…
— Tom Robbins
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Men forget that a value judgment has a raison d'tre only as a preparation for an action and a meaning solely in relation to a…
— Mankind
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Our system is not one of justice, but of law
— Edna Buchanan
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Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.
— W Clement Stone
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The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge…
— Ted Morgan
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When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support…
— Dwight David Eisenhower
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Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universes binary or dualistic operating…
— Sol Luckman
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against…
— Barbara Castle
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and…
— Barbara Castle
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I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And…
— Matthew Barney
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Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean…
— Tom Allen
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It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate…
— Robert Atkins
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You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's…
— Tom Atkins
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They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
— John Anderson
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What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a eural correlate of consciousness?
— David Chalmers
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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system…
— Ron Chernow
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The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and…
— Chris Bell
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In her throat like the cola, my system solar. I'm too young to die sober, your man a cobra.
— Lil Wayne
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