#system

Participating in class, doing your homework, and basically just having your shit together and doing what's got to be done shouldn't be seen as a lame move, it's extremely counterproductive to the fostering of our collective intelligence. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom #education

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#objective #pay #perfect #price #sentencing

Antiblack violencein Chicago was common since at least the 189-s, when blacks were brought in as strikebreakers. The violence grew with the black population. In the two years leading up to mid-July 1919, whhites bombed more than twenty-five homes and properties owned by blacks in white areas...One bombing killed a little girl...The police never arrested anyone, infuriating blacks. ↗

— Cameron McWhirter

#justice-system #racial-prejudice #white-supremacy #home

I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage. ↗

— Joshua Ferris

#system #love

Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing machine voices. On the far wall, in large print, a poster declared: BEGGARS CANNOT BE CHOOSERS. ↗

— Mark Cantrell

#science-fiction #social-justice #totalitarian-system-mechanisms #unemployment #welfare

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hired #interests #involved #lies #nobody

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. ↗

— Scott Adams

#counting #creator #likes #mysterious #numbers

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#america #another #apart #destroy #economy

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#feasible #infinite #require #simple #systems

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#among #attach #discussion #full #hope