Quotes About System

Our current food system is simply unsustainable: when as many as 20 calories of energy or resources goes into every 1 calorie of food nutrition that we end up eating;

From the individual doctor's perspective, it is far better to do whatever it takes to avoid litigation, even if it doesn't seem to be the right thing to do, than to risk entanglement in this crazy system.

It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.

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If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call Capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery. In this system—our system—the slaves are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of unreachable legalese.

Order is the greatest grace

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.

We exhibit at present the novel & astonishing Spectacle of a whole People deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conductive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favor of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.

With every step forward we become more sure what the disorder is not: it is not willful misbehaving, it is not a moral failing, it is not a lack of trying nor an inability to take an interest in the world. Neurobiological data now show that the syndrome is rooted in the central nervous system.

Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?

With that system, people who used their sick leave got more days off with pay and were rewarded over those who didn't use it. I removed this instance of what economists call a perverse incentive by giving everyone a single pool of paid leave days that accumulated based on the number of hours worked and covered paid holidays, vacations, days off, and illness.

the institutional bias of the private mass media "does not merely protect the corporate system. It robs the public of a chance to understand the real world.

insight vast to spheres unnamed, System on system, countless worlds and suns Moving in splendid measures, band by band Linked in division, one yet separate, The silver islands of a sapphire sea With waves which roll in restless tides of change.

A chicken benefits not from her eggs; the honeybees cannot enjoy their honey; similarly, a writer earns nothing from its writing; and visionary one receives not a profit from its vision. However, the dominant figures stay to contribute little support for the continuation of a selfish and monopolized system.

A chicken benefits not from her eggs; the honeybees cannot enjoy their honey; similarly, a writer earns nothing from its writing; and visionary one receives not profit from its vision. However, the dominant figures stay to contribute a little support for the continuation of such a selfish and monopolized system.

A vote holds not only a significant power; it also carries a key to a system, essence to the welfare, surety to the career of a future generation, and magnet to the stability of the state. The wrong choice or emotionally pledge and favour of the vote-casting can indeed victimize a voter itself as a consequence. Realize this power and use it wisely, disregarding all external influences and tricks.