System Quotes

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After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. — Judith Lewis Herman
The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior… — Judith Lewis Herman
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants… — Jack Weatherford
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps
If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at… — Herman E. Daly
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of… — Herbert M. Shelton
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system. — Seymour Cray
The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying… — Yvon Chouinard
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that… — John Boyd Orr
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by… — Lord Acton
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a… — Donna Shalala
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. — Charles Schumer
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders. — William Feather
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If… — Henri Frederic Amiel
For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can… — Donald Miller
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. — Terry Eagleton
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga. — Andrew Harvey
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold ofâ€”and which, if wrested away without the… — Thomas Chalmers
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not… — Shinzo Abe

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