Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 880 authors
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If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and…
— Pope John Paul II
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
— Thomas Merton
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An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an…
— Albert Einstein
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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing…
— Hannah Arendt
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on…
— George Monbiot
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However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
— Robert Huber
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My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than…
— Don Omar
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Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of…
— Philip J. Corso
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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of…
— E.W. Jackson
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While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that would…
— Doug Lamborn
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They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music…
— Brian Eno
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The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly…
— Daniel Dennett
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I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and…
— Timothy Leary
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