Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 850 authors
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Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian…
— Cassandra Clare
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In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.
— Malcolm Knowles
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It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example,…
— Marvin Minsky
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Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
— Eugene Odum
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
— Daniel Dennett
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Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems;…
— Fethullah Gulen
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...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind,…
— Margaret Mead
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Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand…
— John Searle
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What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are…
— Nhat Hanh
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
— Stephen Covey
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a…
— Alexander Pope
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Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ...…
— Frederick Soddy
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We share management's vision that the recent regulatory changes, the large presence of Sprint Nextel in the 2.5 GHz band, and the near-term implementation of…
— Peter Schiff
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
— Jack Kingston
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Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching…
— Tom DeLay
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Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to…
— Donald Cram
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