A Quotes
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“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.”
“A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.”
“A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.”
“A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.”
“A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.”
“A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.”
“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.”
Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”
Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell
“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we need to do is decide what to do with people who pose a genuine risk to society or cause tangible harm. There are perfectly rational ways of doing this; in fact, most societies already pursue such policies with respect to alcohol: we leave people free to drink and get inebriated, but set limits on where and when. In general, we prosecute drunk drivers, not inebriated pedestrians.
In this sense, the justice system is in many respects a battleground between moral ideas and evidence concerning how to most effectively promote both individual and societal interests, liberty, health, happiness and wellbeing. Severely compromising this system, insofar as it serves to further these ideals, is our vacillation or obsession with moral responsibility, which is, in the broadest sense, an attempt to isolate the subjective element of human choice, an exercise that all too readily deteriorates into blaming and scapegoating without providing effective solutions to the actual problem. The problem with the question of moral responsibility is that it is inherently subjective and involves conjecture about an individuals’ state of mind, awareness and ability to act that can rarely if ever be proved. Thus it involves precisely the same type of conjecture that characterizes superstitious notions of possession and the influence of the devil and provides no effective means of managing conduct: the individual convicted for an offence or crime considered morally wrong is convicted based on a series of hypotheses and probabilities and not necessarily because he or she is actually morally wrong. The fairness and effectiveness of a system of justice based on such hypotheses is highly questionable particularly as a basis for preventing or reducing drug use related harm. For example, with respect to drugs, the system quite obviously fails as a deterrent and the system is not organised to ‘reform’ the offender much less to ensure that he or she has ‘learned a lesson’; moreover, the offender does not get an opportunity to make amends or even have a conversation with the alleged victim. In the case of retributive justice, the justice system is effectively mopping up after the fact. In other words, as far as deterrence is concerned, the entire exercise of justice becomes an exercise based on faith, rather than one based on evidence.”
Source: Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.”
“A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.”
“A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”
“A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.”
Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.
“A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.”
“A system reflects its maker.
Build carefully.
Your world will say
what you were afraid of.”
“A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.”
Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.”
“A system that depends on heroes will eventually need rescuing.”
Source: The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens
“A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.”
“A system that utilizes bartering and smart liquidity is superior to a debt based system.”
“A system that utilizes bartering and smart liquidity is superior to a debt based system in many ways.”
“A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills”
“A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.”
“A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.”
“A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.”
“A system which integrates additive manufacturing at scale allows products to be produced in smaller quantities more often and much closer to where the product will be utilized. And there's a direct correlation to demand as opposed to estimation.”
“A system-wide transformation can be achieved only when everyone takes a step forward together, like a puzzle that will be solved only when we turn all the keys at the same time.”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“A system without ownership
is a ghost.”
“A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.”
“A system-grinder hates the truth.”
Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A systemic approach to the knowledge collected will help decision makers to construct resilient and proactive measures across these pathways:
Prominent partnerships of cooperation and interconnectedness as a new business model are needed to make the existing model of competition between companies obsolete.
Heal the broken links in cyber-security by creating cyber-resilient supply and value chains.
Leader-shift your business from the culture of fear and uncertainty to the business of trust.”
“A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.”
“A systems approach asks questions like: Why are we stuck here? Why are we presented with this narrow list of unsatisfactory options in the first place?”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“A szavaknak más értelme kelt az ő ajkán. Ha ő azt mondta: gyász, akkor elsötétült minden a hallgatók szeme előtt. Ha azt mondta: harc, látták az öldöklő dulakodást. Ha azt mondta: Isten, a fején érezte mindenki az Isten fényességét.”
“A szem az agyvelő legtávolabbi képződménye, a koponya kiugró bástyafokán maga is egy látó, szabadon hagyott agyvelő, mely a megismerés lázában, valamikor a lét kozmikus forradalmában két lyukat szakított magának a koponya csontfalán, s ezen a lőrésen kukucskál ki a külső világba, megtudni, hogy mi a célja a teremtésnek.”
Source: Anna Édes
“A szerelem egyetlen feltétele: a Másik Félnek bele kell egyeznie, hogy szeressék. Nem könnyű dolog.”
Source: Les stances à Sophie
“A szerelemben támadtak fel, mindkettejük szívében az élet kiapadhatatlan forrása fakadt a másik számára.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“A szüleink belénk verték a megfelelő hanglejtés fontosságát, nem haraphattuk el a szavak végét, nem tűrtek semmiféle hányaveti ragozást. Azt tanultuk, hogy rendesen ki kell ejteni a szavakat."(...) (Dandy is hatással volt ránk, pedánsan kijavította a nyelvtani hibáinkat, vagy ebéd közben ránk szólt, hogy artikuláljunk rendesen. A cél az volt, hogy felülmúljuk önmagunkat, és előrébb jussunk. Mindezt kó előre gondosan eltervezték. Erre ösztönöztek minket. Nemcsak azt várták el tőlünk, hogy okosak legyünk, hanem azt is, hogy felvállaljuk az eszünket - hogy büszkék legyünk rá -, és ez megmutatkozott beszédünkben is. Minden azonban problémákat okozhatott. Egy bizonyos beszédmód - a fehér stílus, ahogyan egyesek nevezték - árulásnak hatott, fellengzősnek, mintha megtagadtuk volna saját kultúránkat.”
Source: 成為這樣的我「引導式筆記書」：蜜雪兒．歐巴馬帶領你探索內心的聲音
“A síntese cultural não nega as diferenças entre uma visão e outra, pelo contrário, se funda nelas. O que ella nega é a invasão de uma pela outra.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“A sötétzárka sem tesz annyira magányossá, mint a hazugság.”
Source: Tranquility
“A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.”
Source: The Boys of Summer
“A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.”
Source: Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”
“A table-full of welcome!”
Source: Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series
“A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.”
“A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.”
Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son