Systematic Quotes
208 quotes by 183 authors
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One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have…
— Otto Lilienthal
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Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I…
— John Pilger
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We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be…
— Russell Banks
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When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression…
— Bill Maher
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Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest…
— George Stigler
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The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of…
— Isham G. Harris
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Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive…
— Georg Simmel
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Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of…
— John Dear
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I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
— Shane Claiborne
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Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as…
— Amartya Sen
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It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
— Niklaus Wirth
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The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields…
— Iwan Bloch
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It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place…
— Albert Hofmann
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions…
— Harold Innis
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All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
— Ibn Khaldun
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic…
— Dan Ariely
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If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and…
— Dan Ariely
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