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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn`t do much for the auto-immune system.
Stuart Stevens
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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
Tom C. Clark
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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Fixing our healthcare system as a whole is our primary challenge, and to make it happen you need to get engaged – to pound the pavement, get your hands dirty, endure real sacrifice, take on antiquated thinking and help lead the public debate.
Senator John Kerry
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Burnout is nature`s way of telling you, you`ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you`re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
Sam Keen
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each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if vir...
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
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"Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?"
Lucy Parsons
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman
Keywords: and :: have :: increasingly :: nonwork :: subsidizes :: system :: taxes :: that :: we :: workSubject: Society QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it
Dottie Archibald
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.
Charles Sawyer
Subject: Profit QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe
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My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.
Buddha
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher
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I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
Avram Noam Chomsky
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The Internet is a telephone system that`s gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll
Subject: Technology QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
Subject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We`re not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
Dave Foreman
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When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the...
Dennis Prager
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it
Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our mi...
William James
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our mi...
William James
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts
Ayn Rand
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