Annie Leonard Quotes
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
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Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
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Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
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I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
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The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
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It's something we're trying to gain information about and letting them talk and visit and seeing what situations may be out there. And we're doing the same thing. We'll see if there's a fit. It has to make sense for us and make sense for both sides.
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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
