System Quotes
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A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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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 target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.
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I would expect another Scars album before another System album.
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They are often in a shame-based system, which attempts to cover over and even destroy the True Self.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
