#system

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

Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en el mar de porquería de los medios de comunicación monopolizados por la iniciativa privada. ↗

— Rius

#humor #politics #education

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#education-system #humanities #education

I admit it in school I was an underachiever and it was so easy to do. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#education

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#forth #great #identify #new #new york

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#immature #legal #legal system #porous #system

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#controlled #course #development #endangered #others

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it. ↗

— Peter King

#deterrent #going #idea #nuclear #system

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#get #groups #i #old #sympathetic