System Quotes
5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors
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She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying…
— Bella Abzug
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The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
— Paul Shepard
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The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system…
— Unknown Author
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To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally…
— David Korten
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When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has…
— James Rickards
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I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in…
— Julian Whitaker
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(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of…
— Raymond Keene
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Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it…
— Peter Weiss
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Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese,…
— Tom Harkin
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for…
— Bob Woodward
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The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model,…
— Evo Morales
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A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our…
— Victoria Woodhull
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Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet…
— Anodea Judith
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A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of…
— Harold H. Greene
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Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
— Michael K. Powell
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I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
— James L. Barksdale
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It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
— Nicole Kidman
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Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
— Ayn Rand
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The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the…
— Ralph Nader
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..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human…
— Martin Ennals
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It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find…
— Joan Robinson
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We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
— Edmund Burke
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The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of…
— John Bruton
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