System Quotes
5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors
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My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
— Charles Manson
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We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy…
— George W. Bush
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We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build…
— Dick Cheney
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Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order…
— Joseph Beuys
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
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Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
— Harry S. Truman
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Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.
— Rush Limbaugh
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The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of…
— Norman Cousins
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There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short,…
— Barack Obama
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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own…
— Marianne Williamson
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We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see…
— James Hansen
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Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what…
— Unknown Author
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better…
— W. Edwards Deming
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Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system…
— Jim Knight
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Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we…
— Emeril Lagasse
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To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
— Russell L. Ackoff
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How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off…
— Edward Abbey
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The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
— Edward Abbey
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of…
— Robert Teeter
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The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
— Martin McGuinness
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The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a…
— Douglas Adams
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
— Edmund Burke
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