System Quotes

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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever… — Henry Ward Beecher
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system. — W. Edwards Deming
I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system? — John F. Kerry
You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are… — Maurice Samuel
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If… — Monica Dickens
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter… — Dirk Kempthorne
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find… — Herbert Butterfield
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the… — Nigel Kneale
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,… — Edmund Burke
Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world… — Charles Stanley
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to… — Vida Goldstein
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives… — Vida Goldstein
The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. — Wallace Smith Broecker
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than… — Paul Hawken
The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those… — Dean Koontz
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we… — David Foreman
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended… — Malcolm Gladwell
The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on… — Arthur Lynch

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