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Quotes About System

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
~ Brian De Palma
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.
~ Lynn Good
The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.
~ Robert Love
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
~ Ralph Merkle
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
~ Martin Van Buren
I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.
~ Beppe Grillo
I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.
~ Angus Deaton
I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
~ Stephen Moore
This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.
~ Julianne Moore
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
~ Valerie Plame
Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.
~ Steve Eisman
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group, to bargain for more power or cynical advantage.
~ Amitava Kumar
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
~ John Mackey
What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.
~ Helena Norberg-Hodge
The whole reason why we have this kind of assembly line model of education that we inherited from the Prussians, is they were the first people - it's a very egalitarian motive - to say how do we educate everyone.
~ Sal Khan
Sólo después, cuando el socialismo pasó de ser una teoría a ser un sistema económico real en varios países, se hizo dolorosamente evidente que las personas en los países socialistas tenían mayores problemas para costearse aquellas cosas que, en los países capitalistas, la mayoría de la gente podían comprar con facilidad.
~ Thomas Sowell
Adam Smith declared "the good temper and moderation of contending factions" to be "the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people."51 But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that "the system is rigged" against them and morality is just a giant fraud?
~ Thomas Sowell
Adam Smith declared "the good temper and moderation of contending factions" to be "the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people." But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that "the system is rigged" against them and morality is just a giant fraud?
~ Thomas Sowell
The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did not conform to due process).
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
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~ Tim Harford
el sistema no mercantil tiene la reconfortante ventaja de ocultar el hecho de que los pobres no reciben la misma calidad de educación que los ricos.
~ Tim Harford
In the US, the total cost of treatment has been put at two hundred and forty-five billion dollars every year. Equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Israel. Many people fear that the medical management of diabetes could bankrupt every single healthcare system in the future.
~ Tim Noakes