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Systems Quotes (page 39)

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse. Michael Crichton
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system..."
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. Kurt Vonnegut
Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way. Dan Brown
Edward Abbey quote: "An economic system which can only expand or expire must be..."
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. Edward Abbey
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... Margaret Atwood
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. Aldous Huxley
Ayn Rand quote: "The code of competence is the only system of morality that's..."
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard. Ayn Rand
And indeed, it cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive to synchronize the sixty or seventy different times which beat simultaneously in every normal human system, so that when eleven strikes, all the rest chime in unison, and the present is neither a violent disruption nor completely forgotten in the past. Virginia Woolf
What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fulton's date--1809. Postal service? No. France is a back number there. Telegraphy? No, we taught her that ourselves. Journalism? No. Magazining? No, that is our own specialty. Government? No; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Nobility, Democracy,... Mark Twain
A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could... Bell Hooks
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems Anna Garlin Spencer
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln
Julian Barnes quote: "Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling..."
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex. Julian Barnes
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Peter Cook quote: "One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to..."
One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it. Peter Cook

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