System Quotes

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We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that… — Janet Reno
...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty. — Marco Rubio
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is… — George Wald
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? — Thomas Paine
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different… — Emile Durkheim
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The… — Emile Durkheim
The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality… — Uwe Reinhardt
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true… — Mikhail Bakunin
No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be… — Heber J. Grant
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled… — Adoniram Judson
Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the… — Rachel Jackson
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and… — John Playfair
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man… — Dave Barry
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300… — Gaylord Nelson
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit… — Brian Day
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking… — Mahatma Gandhi
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to… — Maxwell Maltz
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you… — Maxwell Maltz
It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere.… — Medea Benjamin

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