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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
John Perry Barlow
You
Will
Assure
System
Bought
Highly
Mass
Ideas
Knowledgeable
Intellectually
Then
Ignorant
Elite
In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.
John Podhoretz
Complicated
Strategy
State
System
Obama
Delegates
Lead
Never
Primary
Hillary
Democratic
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Sneak
Up
Establish
Use
Team
Awarding
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
John Ralston Saul
Democracy
Capitalism
Natural
Will
Free
State
System
Run
Corrupt
Attempt
Allowed
Undermine
After
Which
Social
Natural State
Social System
In order to handle rejection, we have to reflect on the past, analyze/study it. Next, just like a computer, we have to reboot. Next, get it out of our system by rejecting every aspect of it.
John Rampton
Past
Reflect
Every
Rejection
Our
System
Out
Computer
Like
Handle
Get
Just
Order
Next
Aspect
Rejecting
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls
Finance
Money
Political
System
Unable
Constant
Paralyzed
Pursuit
Simply
Powers
Campaigns
Political System
Function
We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.
John Redwood
Dangerous
Responsibility
Duty
Think
Otherwise
Crisis
System
Would
Would-Be
Solvency
Solvent
Delays
Having
Could
Had
Overall
Well
Safer
Hit
Did
Bank
Banking
Banks
Regulation
England
Keep
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.
John Rhys-Davies
Live
Every
Way
Telephone
Those
System
High
Directory
Put
Named
Pile
Up
Stacked
Galaxy
Them
Modest
Hollywood
Miles
Star
Milky Way
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
John Ridley
Work
Hard Work
Day
You
Job
Bad Day
Pay
System
Bad
Boss
Yelling
Subjugation
Human
Little
Your
Full
Hard
Slavery
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.
John Roberts
Live
Other
Humility
System
Recognize
Striving
Oath
Shaped
Operate
Equally
Judges
Within
Judicial
Up
Precedent
Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.
John Sculley
Best
Experience
Design
Everything
System
Out
Through
Feel
Like
Look
Industrial
How
Understood
Were
Laid
Whether
Boards
Lens
User
Even
Apple
Things
Designing
There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.
John Singleton
You
Ali
System
Guy
He
Stuff
Name
Like
Know
Does
How
His
Kurosawa
Feudal
Africa
African
Japan
The plain truth is, 'Fruitvale Station' was made totally outside the Hollywood studio system, and every ounce of the picture feels authentic. The lives of the people involved in the movie will never be the same.
John Singleton
Truth
Truth Is
People
Will
Made
Picture
Every
Ounce
Station
System
Totally
Outside
Never
Studio
Studio System
Feels
Involved
Authentic
Same
Movie
Plain
Hollywood
Lives
It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases.
John Sulston
Innovation
Benefits
Minority
Rich
Markets
System
Corrupt
Somewhat
Shareholders
Clear
Over
Inefficient
Does
Very
Diseases
Patients
Poor
Produce
Really
Produces
Present
Medicines
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
John T. Flynn
Government
Result
Free
Our
Unless
Sector
System
Enterprise
Must
Free Enterprise
Drift
Only
Disappearance
Reverse
Gradual
Representative
Fascist
Extension
Present
Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
John T. Flynn
Government
Mistake
People
Enemy
Country
Party
Believe
Our
System
Economic
Economic System
Most
Chief
American
Form
Communist
Communist Party
Internal
Serious
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.
John Taylor Gatto
Training
Ambition
Every
Our
Our Lives
System
Easy
Both
Fair
Come
Schools
Make
Mostly
Domain
Training Ground
Manage
Endless
Expenditure
Want
Create
Ground
Reasons
Population
Foul
Whose
Lives
Second
Every Second
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.
John W. Snow
Obligation
Will
Build
Action
Think
System
Security
Put
Long-Term
Reduce
Reform
Sustainable
Which
Social
Social Security
Social Security Reform
Consensus
Basis
Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.
John W. Snow
Obligation
Say
System
Security
Trillion
Some
Point
Come
Make
Up
Represents
Mean
Social
Whole
Social Security
I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.
Johnny Isakson
Saying
Money
Mother
President
System
Criticize
Someone
Wrong
Well
Said
Opposition
Heard
Reform
Last
Night
Last Night
People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.
Jon Fishman
People
Free
Live
Think
Positively
Definitely
System
Outside
Day-To-Day
Freely
Within
Trying
Maybe
Them
Level
The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life
Work
World
Country
Medicine
Despite
Ranked
System
Find
Life Expectancy
More
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Healthcare
Exhausting
Fix
Model
Expectancy
Any
Staff
Companies
I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.
Jon Lovett
Financial
Drop
System
Financial System
About
Points
Like
Caused
Worked
Speech
I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.
Jonathan Jackson
Work
Gift
Think
Incredibly
System
Charismatic
Someone
He
Like
Look
Does
His
Very
Worker
Acting
Hard
Even
Hard Worker
Specific
Ben
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
Jonathan Kozol
You
Game
Winner
Unjust
System
About
Never
Advantage
Anything
Your
Even
Rigged
Start
You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.
Jonathan Pryce
Education
You
School
Drama
Drama School
Punish
System
Classes
Governments
Going
Arts
Middle
Need
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
Jonathan Turley
You
Important
President
Our
System
Obama
Something
Policies
How
Often
Happen
Many
Agree
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