System Quotes
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The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
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Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
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I was speaking the truth in a system that doesn’t value the truth, but as soon as you go out of it, then speaking the truth actually has an impact. It turns out a lot of people care… not everybody is interested in ignoring bad behaviour. I learned I had to go outside the system.
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The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
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There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.
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The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
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I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?
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Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.
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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans.
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You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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Even if you do have a punitive system, that doesn't guarantee that it is going to be imposed or would lead to any better action.
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Health insurance in Germany continues with no change if you lose a job. We do know very well that people who become unemployed are at an increased risk of becoming ill, and therefore becoming unemployed is about the worst time to lose health insurance. So therefore, everyone who loses a job remains in exactly the same insurance system he is in.
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Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
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I think if there's a support system in place, and you're acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
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The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
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In Obama terminology, “hope” is the possibility that power may be wrested from society’s “haves” by infiltrating their political system.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
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So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.
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Finally, be kind to yourself and have a good support system.
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These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
