#system

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#direct #fact #god #grand #make

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#child #controversial #every #germ #ideas

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#dogmatic #exhibited #important #man #material

The West remains obsessed by the caste system. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#obsessed #remains #system #west

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it. ↗

— Roby James

#complex #systems #change

Going to school is a lot like watching TV. Click! Channel 2: first period. Click! Channel 4: second period, And so on, channel surfing through the day. Watching, glassy-eyed. The usual commercials blast at me: Go to school, Do your work, Follow the rules. Like most commercials, they're bullshit. It's quite possible, you know, To go through the school day Without saying a word to any teacher. No interactive TV here. Subjects, like shows, change all the time. Teachers, like fading soap stars, try to hang on. Some of them are permanently cancelled. ↗

— Mel Glenn

#change

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. ↗

— Patti Davis

#america #country #father #feeling #gradually

America has designated football as the international sport, but the rest of the world continues to apply the metric system inconsistently. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #metric-system #sports #design

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#best way #capitalist #currency #destroy #system