System Quotes

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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer… — Jacques Derrida
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on… — Walter F. Mondale
What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system — Henry A. Kissinger
Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of… — Ruhollah Khomeini
In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic. — Ruhollah Khomeini
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;… — Ivan Turgenev
The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates. — Claire McCaskill
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access… — Mike Huckabee
The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute… — Paul Burrell
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the… — David Mamet
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in… — Ezra Klein
Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us… — Colin Powell
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and… — Vaclav Havel
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way… — Robert A. Heinlein
Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged… — Alfred North Whitehead
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have… — Simone de Beauvoir
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'… — Simone de Beauvoir

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