System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player…
— Bill Belichick
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We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection…
— Benito Mussolini
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Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
— Hermann Oberth
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Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
— Irving Kaufman
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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
— Michael K. Powell
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The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
— Clifford Stoll
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free…
— Woodrow Wilson
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For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up…
— John Hoyt
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Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
— Chuck Daly
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In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
— Robert M. T. Hunter
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It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.
— Karl Popper
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Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only…
— Ayn Rand
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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
— Ayn Rand
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