Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 880 authors
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Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are…
— Thomas Naylor
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It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits…
— Kenichi Ohmae
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Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.
— Stanford Moore
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The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.…
— Paul Carus
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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people…
— Lester R. Brown
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as…
— John Fowles
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Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any…
— Robert Carson
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I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in…
— Penelope Lively
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the…
— Helen Fisher
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The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems…
— Deepak Chopra
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Systems don't win, players do.
— Marv Levy
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that…
— Noam Chomsky
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad…
— Edward Snowden
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No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems…
— Maude Barlow
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in…
— Thomas Berry
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Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.
— Jeroo Billimoria
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They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.
— John Szarkowski
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