Top 100 System It Quotes

#1. is pre-eminently a redemptive system. It

Ed Wharton

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#2. Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#3. I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.

Tom Stoppard

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#4. important components of the management system. It is the process by which top management reviews the effectiveness of the system and analyzes the performance of the organization.

Craig Cochran

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#5. But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

Shaquille O'Neal

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#6. The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

Kenneth E. Boulding

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#7. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

Pope Francis

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#8. There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Shia Labeouf

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#9. This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

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#10. To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Mike Huckabee

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#11. A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

Henry Cloud

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#12. The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

Charles Duhigg

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#13. The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#14. When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

Adi Da

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#15. We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

Nigel Lawson

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#16. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.

Immortal Technique

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#17. My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad ... But let your words and conduct be perfectlypure
such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek ... If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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#18. I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.

Joel Spolsky

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#19. Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

Jeffrey Tucker

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#20. The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Bill James

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#21. Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

Pierre De Coubertin

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#22. The pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.

James Gleick

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#23. You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

Richard Sherman

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#24. Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

Shawn Amos

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#25. It's not about an organized religious system, it's about a supernatural, intimate relationship with the creator God of Christianity".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

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#26. Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

Steven Popkes

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#27. There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views.

J. Paul Getty

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#28. My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Isabel Allende

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#29. An organism is not an inert lump of matter, but a dynamic system: it survives by taking in new matter, extracting energy from it, and then expelling it. Matter flows through an organism like water through a fountain, only slower.

Eric T. Olson

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#30. That's what counted. It was more than a security system: it was a state of mind. Although Herkmoor had suffered many escape attempts, some extraordinarily clever, none had succeeded - and every guard at Herkmoor, every employee, was acutely aware of that fact

Douglas Preston

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#31. I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#32. When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

Simon Bolivar

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#33. The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

David Chase

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#34. The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

Sol LeWitt

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#35. The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

Joan D. Vinge

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#36. Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it's meant to be an encounter with a person.

Mike Donehey

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#37. I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

John Kitzhaber

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#38. There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

Jensen Ackles

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#39. Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Pat Robertson

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#40. The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees

Veronika Skvortsova

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#41. The ultimate rebellion wasn't fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully.

Paul Stanley

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#42. Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

Deepak Chopra

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#43. People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system ... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them ...

Malcolm X

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#44. The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prevent sharing information, enforcing borders and protecting citizens.

David Ignatius

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#45. When we lose faith in our officers of the law, it harms all of as. It cripples our criminal justice system. It threatens the most vulnerable parts of our community. It allows money and power to subvert justice.

Rob Thomas

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#46. The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements ... But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.

Taiichi Ohno

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#47. Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors of Aborigines and by government officials and if you become part of that system, it's always difficult to break out of it.

Lowitja O'Donoghue

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#48. I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'

Angus King

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#49. I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.

Michael Pollan

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#50. The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.

Ralph Nader

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#51. Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Melanie Fiona

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#52. What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

Eric Cantona

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#53. Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#54. In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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#55. For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Virginia Woolf

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#56. The fanatic emphasis on 'Plan B' that professionals talk about is not a coward's fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces.

Andy Paula

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#57. Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

N. T. Wright

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#58. If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

Donny Deutsch

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#59. The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

Pete Egoscue

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#60. In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

Bruce Dern

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#61. I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Tana French

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#62. A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,

Werner Vogels

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#63. If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence.

David Icke

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#64. The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

Douglas Rushkoff

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#65. The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

Mark Zandi

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#66. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the immune system, it attacks the very cells that are trying to fight it, and it quickly hides itself in your genome.

Seth Berkley

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#67. A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

Andrew O'Hagan

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#68. Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

Alfred North Whitehead

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#69. Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

Robert E. Ornstein

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#70. Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

Sarah Zettel

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#71. Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

James Ussher

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#72. Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

Howard Warren Buffett

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#73. Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sarah Churchwell

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#74. Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

Bill Gates

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#75. As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

John Anderson

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#76. In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.

Ken Robinson

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#77. The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.

Martti Ahtisaari

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#78. The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

Gideon Rachman

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#79. Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.

Robert H. Jackson

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#80. When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Eric Clapton

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#81. A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department ... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

David Bohm

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#82. If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the whole country, in no time like a cancer spreading throughout the body.

Sunday Adelaja

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#83. About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.

George Wald

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#84. Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

Jane McGonigal

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#85. Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

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#86. You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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#87. The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.

Adyashanti

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#88. Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.

Julio Frenk

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#89. Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

Michael Beckwith

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#90. Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Edgar Mitchell

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#91. You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?'
'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

Catherynne M Valente

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#92. It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Michael Leunig

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#93. the problem is not some system. It is us. Each of us. We've got to fix ourselves before we can fix a whole damn country.

Imbolo Mbue

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#94. To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Kamala Harris

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#95. If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.

William Dean Hamilton

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#96. a management practice is a good practice when: It engages people and their interactions; It enables them to improve the system; It helps to delight all clients.

Jurgen Appelo

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#97. Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.

Barack Obama

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#98. Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

Camille Paglia

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#99. In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.

Jon Krakauer

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#100. Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity. The

Nancy Isenberg

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