System Quotes
5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors
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I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe…
— Lateefah Simon
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The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,…
— Unknown Author
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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to…
— Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in…
— Linus Pauling
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An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the…
— David Berlinski
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An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list…
— David Berlinski
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He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically…
— Keith Devlin
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In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward…
— Paul Begala
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I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.
— Pierre Omidyar
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[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck…
— Alec Baldwin
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The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates…
— Spencer Bachus
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This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
— Charles Davenport
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I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose…
— George Andrew Olah
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The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments…
— Thomas Berry
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Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the…
— Jan Schakowsky
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A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system…
— James A. Forbes
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The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even…
— Roger Mahony
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action…
— Michel de Certeau
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
— George Stevens
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Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship…
— Wietse Venema
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The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete…
— Gene Spafford
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People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
— Prince Philip
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