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Letter "S" » systems
«I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
built up, elaborate, elaborated, idiot, special education, supposition, suspect, systems, up on
«Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.»
Author: Linus Torvalds
(Computer engineer, Programmer)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
crappy, Microsoft, operate on, operating, operating system, systems
«It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil»
Author: Sidney Hook
| Keywords:
belief system, cognitive, constitute, doctrines, existence of God, hypothesis, Order of, recognizable, religious belief, religious doctrine, speculative, systems, the existence of God
«History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.»
Author: Vladimir Putin
(President)
| Keywords:
authoritarian, democratic government, devised, dictatorships, forms of government, proves, shortcoming, systems, transient
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, deductions, deny, distort, evidence, intentionally, justify, predilection, predilections, senses, systems
«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 factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
customs, factors, foremost, framework, legal system, regulate, stability, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, systems, Traditions, wherein, world affairs
«Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
barrier, belief system, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, growths, systems
«Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
Almighty, contradictories, contradictory, derogatory, invented, repugnant, systems, the Almighty, unedifying
«It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
Jobs
| Keywords:
after death, con, cons, Corporations, posthumous, systems
«In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
invert, inverted, madam, madams, motives, natural action, natural process, systems, The Mirror, undisguised
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