Quotes with system-level

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  • Anna Lindh This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Horace When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Michael J. Gelb ... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
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  • Carroll Quigley ...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Billy Wilder A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
    Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Jean Cocteau A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • James Thurber A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Iain Banks A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
    The Player of Games (1988) 215
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Eric Hoffer A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sam Ervin A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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  • Ferdinand de Saussure A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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  • Abbie Hoffman A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Bill Vaughan A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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