System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. — Samuel Alexander
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. — Larry Elder
There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico… — Eugene McCarthy
I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is… — Rupert Friend
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But… — Tana French
I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social… — Tom Freston
It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away. — Ludacris
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of… — Mary Douglas
I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming… — Friedrich Wohler
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they… — Waylon Jennings
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared… — Anthony Giddens
A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it… — Karl Popper
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy… — Noam Chomsky
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also… — Anthony Giddens
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower… — Jared Diamond
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that… — Parker J. Palmer
I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. — Billy Joel
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to… — David Horowitz
America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers… — Richard Allen Epstein
....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of… — Patrick Henry
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"? — David Chalmers
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start… — David Cone
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is… — James Chanos

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