System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that…
— Roy Jenkins
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
— Jeremy Bentham
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I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a…
— Georges Bizet
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For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking…
— Janet Yellen
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding…
— Alan Greenspan
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We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a…
— Lawrence Summers
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Dr. A.Q. Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade, ... He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know…
— Pervez Musharraf
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What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live…
— Unknown Author
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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if…
— Margaret Thatcher
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You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
— Drew Brees
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I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.
— John Elway
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The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into…
— John Dalton
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Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man…
— Vladimir Lenin
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If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
— Jesse Helms
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Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our…
— Tom Robbins
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Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
— Robert Graves
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For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a…
— Carolyn Porco
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We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in…
— Carolyn Porco
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All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or…
— Carolyn Porco
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