#system

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#actor #films #ignore #power #successful

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#believed #first #fund #i #idea

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#duties #established #few #merely #protection

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#citizen #ecosystem #first #first amendment #life

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#care #comprehensive #considered #endanger #liability

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#everyone #give #giving #good #good place

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education