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The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being c...

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Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality,...

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The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday ...

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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for...

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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...

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Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systemati...

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[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people beli...

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as w...

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All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in t...

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function...

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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music si...

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Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bi...

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The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating syste...

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To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into...

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Marshall McLuhanUnderstanding Media: The Extensions of Man

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against t...

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I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many ca...

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' lic...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only ro...

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Segregation has no place in the education system.

The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishmen...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adju...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers ...

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I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manag...

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They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect t...

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--arti...

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the ...

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Václav HavelThe Power of the Powerless

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

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A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p...

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William Barrett (philosopher)Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is ...

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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

The body is an amazing system.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cea...

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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a...

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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-clean...

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I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be...

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...

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