System Quotes
5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment…
— Unknown Author
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There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and…
— John F. Kennedy
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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
— Victor Hugo
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An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
— Noam Chomsky
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Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
— Noam Chomsky
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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
— Tom DeMarco
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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand…
— Herbert Hoover
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And…
— Gene Wolfe
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices…
— Michael Parenti
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Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in…
— Michael Parenti
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If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan…
— Chuck Hagel
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
— Quentin Tarantino
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It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming…
— George Washington
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I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a…
— Ellen MacArthur
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Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement…
— Elliot Morley
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People work in the system. Management creates the system
— W. Edwards Deming
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If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system
— Lloyd Dobyns
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of…
— Vaclav Havel
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which…
— J. William Fulbright
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
— William Cobbett
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This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science…
— Adolphe Quetelet
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