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Letter "T" » the system
«A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.»
Author: Jane Smiley
| Keywords:
belief system, controversial, germ, immune, immune system, infection, infections, overwhelm, protected, the system, vulnerable
«Fucking ignore the system, use it when it suits you.»
«Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
| Keywords:
anti, demonic, gene, genes, legal, legal system, structure, teachings, the system, topple, topples
«A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.»
«A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.»
«Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
beyond question, critical, critical point, diminishes, finite, Finite number, numbers, the system
«A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attack, damned, damnedest, decent, equally, eternity, followed, grace, heart attack, heart attacks, in vain, Lord's table, minutes, name, outburst, outbursts, system, the LORD, The name, the system, vain, wick, wicked
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
American System, amounts, appeals, attorney, attorneys, criminal, doomsday, game of chance, interminably, jurisprudence, moderate, participant, participants, pervades, postpone, somewhat, the participants, the system, The Wheel of Fortune, wheel
«A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.»
Author: W. Edwards Deming
(Consultant, Educator, Stastistician)
| Keywords:
accomplish, aim, component, components, interdependent, must have, network, system, The Network, the system, without aim
«Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
functions, pinched, pinches, pinching, system of government, the system
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