#system

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system. ↗

— George Osborne

#cannot #debts #system #tackle #tackling

I'm not familiar with the metric system. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#i #metric #system

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#anything #be true #cannot #child #mind

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#big #big hit #critically #financial #go

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#consequences #consists #fact #having #importance

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#any #becomes #closed #derived #each

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #facts #finding #harmony #inquiring

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics. ↗

— Li Peng

#choose #conditions #countries #development #light

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#constructing #correspond #knowing #less #means

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #because #believe #best #best way