Systems Quotes

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The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,… — Noam Chomsky
Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively… — Gregg Olsen
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. — Pat Conroy
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern… — John le Carre
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition… — Alan Watts
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for… — Olaf Stapledon
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to beâ€¦ And thou, O Lord, art more than they. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but… — Annie Dillard
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair Iâ€™m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. Iâ€™m gonna fall apart,… — John Green
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… — Susan Cain
Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on… — Federico Garcia Lorca
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no… — Shane Claiborne
Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But hereâ€™s the thingâ€¦the reason why I rant… — Leymah Gbowee
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems. — Rafael Sabatini
There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country.… — Libba Bray
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in… — Gregory Maguire
It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create.… — Dan Wells
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated… — Daniel H. Pink
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated… — Rob Bell
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social… — Henri Bergson

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