Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 874 authors
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When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
— Harry Browne
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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional…
— Timothy Geithner
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The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or…
— Peter L. Berger
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I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer…
— Ann Veneman
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an…
— Stefan Zweig
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The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…
— Paul Dirac
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Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the…
— Ellen Lupton
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Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and…
— Susan Jacoby
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
— James F. Cooper
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With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
— U Thant
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We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in…
— Terence McKenna
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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and…
— Simon Bolivar
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We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces…
— Roger Penrose
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By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.
— Deng Xiaoping
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The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental…
— Thomas Berry
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