System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another…
— Erik Satie
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If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points…
— Adam Schiff
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The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It…
— Emile Durkheim
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Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can…
— Goran Ivanisevic
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What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model…
— Paul Samuelson
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In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
— John Rawls
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never…
— Victoria Woodhull
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Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and…
— William A. Dembski
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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen…
— Nikola Tesla
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It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.
— Henry Ford
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Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
— Henry Ford
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You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't…
— Henry Ford
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I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what…
— Nalo Hopkinson
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
— Margaret Mead
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The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change,…
— Leslie White
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I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world
— Clifford Geertz
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I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable…
— Byron Dorgan
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I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
— Byron Dorgan
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When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
— Peter Senge
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