#stem

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ↗

— Anais Nin

#become #blindly #cease #dogma #grow

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#answer #became #drift #films #go

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#complex system #every #generation #government #system

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. ↗

— Jerry Only

#crooked #dragged #goes #got #lawyers

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that. ↗

— Rita Ora

#feels #great #i #know #like

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#down #finally #get #out #somewhat

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ↗

— George Orwell

#evil #evolve #good #good and evil #heaven

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government. ↗

— George Osborne

#banking system #change #gone #government #learn