Systems Quotes

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I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people,… — Joan Didion
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm… — Temple Grandin
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,… — Carl Sagan
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like… — Douglas Coupland
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases. — Dan Brown
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy.… — Ellen G. White
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that… — Rick Riordan
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I think we have different value systems." â€”Arthur "Well mine's better." â€”Ford — Douglas Adams
What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world â€” the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy â€” have… — Ramakrishna
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up… — Paulo Coelho

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