#stem

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system. ↗

— John Elway

#because #compare #different #everybody #i

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#balance #balance of power #believe #centuries #century

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#drift #enterprise #extension #fascist #free

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#country #duty #establish #great #here

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cases #checked #desired #encouraged #flow

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#born #catholic #early #education #fitted

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. ↗

— John Garamendi

#comes #mother #mother nature #nature #reality

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#continuing #crisis #dealing #eight #end

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define