2385 System Quotes for You to Enjoy

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise. Eugene Jarecki

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Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only. Eugene Kennedy

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck. Euzhan Palcy

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The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't. Evan Osnos

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It's not about working harder; it's about working the system. Evan Spiegel

System About Working Harder

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum. Evelyn Glennie

System More Allow Simply Support Feel Arm Drum Stick Go Hand Effort Just Dynamic Much Less Let Go Suddenly Last

In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence. Fabrizio Moreira

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here. Fantastic Negrito

Time Me You Long Long Time Lost Jimmy System Signed Out Identity Making Contract Hit Personally Here

Strong policies and innovation can make the difference for energy security, climate change, air quality, and universal access to modern energy services in parallel - in short, building a secure, affordable, sustainable energy system that is available to all. Fatih Birol

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I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. Felice Picano

Legal Law System Legal System American Swear Believed

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system. Felicia Day

Champion People Big System Outside Doing Things

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. Ferdinand Mount

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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. Ferdinand de Saussure

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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear. Fidel Castro

Day Class Will States One Day System Has-Been Someday Disappear Because Been Eternal Social Social Class Capitalist United United States Societies

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes. Floyd Skloot

Nervous Organic Viral Symptom System Out Nervous System Brought About Case Emotional Wiped Dementia Also Affected Condition Brain Brain Damage Intellectual After Tissue Central Processes Certain Disorder Assault Damage

Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention. Frances Beinecke

Cause Problems Language Nervous Young Pay Pay Attention System Recognized Fine Ability Threatening Nervous System Life-Long Develop Mercury Attention Developmental Most Motor Children Young Children Commonly Low Skills Even Exposure Function Levels

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer. Francesca Annis

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The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar. Francis Crick

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Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis. Francis Crick

Related Complete Unlikely Synthesis System Components Moreover Thus Most Protein Genuine Very Closely Same Requires Inhibited Needed

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold. Francis Fukuyama

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