Quotes with system

Quotes 281 till 300 of 302.

  • Anais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Carlo Ratti When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Brian De Palma When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Russell Hoban When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Eldridge Cleaver With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
    Target Zero: A Life in Writing (2015)
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Bob Filner With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Alcee Hastings Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Peter Orme You can only put as much intelligence in a system as was in the design engineer to begin with.
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  • Bob Seger You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Budd Schulberg You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Graham Swift You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Bob Diamond You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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