System Quotes

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We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into… — Sylvia Earle
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility. — Mikhail Gorbachev
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path… — Caroline Myss
The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place… — Alan Gussow
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It… — Eric Clapton
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
No moral system can rest solely on authority. — A.J. Ayer
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly… — James Madison
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger… — John Dickinson
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — James Madison
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive… — James Madison
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both… — James Madison
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and… — Alexander Hamilton
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for… — Thomas Jefferson
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much… — Alexander Hamilton

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