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Quotes About System

Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
~ Valerie Plame
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
~ David Cone
I grossly underestimated the gravitational pull of America's justice system toward white supremacy.
~ Shaun King
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.
~ Henri La Fontaine
In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what?
~ Matthew Heineman
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.
~ Paul Hawken
We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.
~ Angela Braly
The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.
~ Peter C. Doherty
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
~ John Ralston Saul
Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech.
~ Noam Chomsky
The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
~ Sarah Hall
The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I think true artificial general intelligence would be a system that is able to perform human-level reasoning, understanding, and accomplishing of complicated tasks.
~ Jeff Dean
As someone who understands what's needed for entrepreneurs and start-up companies to succeed, I can tell you there is nothing more integral to their success than operating in a stable financial system.
~ Alan Patricof
At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any process, it's better for everybody.
~ Steve Clarke
No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.
~ Stephen Moore
The media understands the system only on the basis of ministers and governments. It seldom sympathises with the people who work within that system.
~ Ravish Kumar
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
~ Esther Dyson
The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.
~ Hillary Clinton