#stem

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#currently #facing #firsthand #foster #foster children

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#believed #cell #cell lines #cells #contaminated

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#band #bigger #broken #citizens #class

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called

What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#continued #controls #did #ensure #fair

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#bad #economy #fighting #got #i

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#each #freedom #grazing #individual #left

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"? ↗

— David Chalmers

#correlate #does #exactly #given #mean