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I get the urge people will have after Trump. 'Look at the chaos and the exhaustion: Wouldn't it be better to go back to something more stable with somebody we know?' But there's no going back to a pre-Trump universe. We can't be saying the system will be fine again just like it was. Because that's not true; it wasn't fine.
Pete Buttigieg
Saying
People
Better
Will
Somebody
Universe
Back
Chaos
System
Fine
Something
More
True
Like
Know
Look
Because
Exhaustion
Go
Trump
Get
Going
Stable
Just
After
Again
Urge
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.
Pete Earley
Health
Suffering
People
Money
Care
Profit
Intervene
Our
Ways
System
Emergencies
Emergency
Hospital
Clearly
React
Health Care
Ineffective
Because
Health Care System
Shelters
Prisons
Continue
Expensive
Jails
Rooms
Cycle
Who
Homeless
Designed
While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
Peter A. Levine
Events
Stress
Nervous
System
Threatening
Nervous System
Studying
Most
Began
Effects
Accumulate
Suspect
While
Capacity
Organisms
Rebound
Innate
Stressful
The end of the studio system signalled the end of the great screen stars. They were the sort of actors who brought their own charismatic personas to each role they played. Audiences felt as if they knew them immediately every time they watched one of their movies.
Peter Bogdanovich
Time
Great
Own
Stars
Every
Every Time
Immediately
System
Charismatic
Brought
Studio
Knew
Studio System
Sort
Felt
Audiences
Were
End
Role
Screen
Movies
Them
Who
Each
Actor
Played
Watched
The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.
Peter C. Doherty
Key
System
Evolution
Immune
Driven
Underlying
Deal
Surprising
Infectious
Often
Experiments
Agents
Should
Mechanisms
Illuminated
Elements
Need
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Peter Capaldi
Art
Me
School
Parents
System
Because
Go
Were
Art School
Afforded
Paid
Grant
Here
Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
Peter Gabriel
Food
Italian Food
Favorite
System
Eating
Sophisticated
Most
Italian
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
Peter Garrett
People
Political
Meet
System
Arena
Political Arena
Intentions
Where
Place
The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.
Peter Hitchens
Education
Strides
Giant
System
Fraud
More
Messing
Up
Than
Improves
Many
Ever
Lives
Britain
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.
Peter Jackson
Hope
You
Justice
System
Would
Fair
Supposed
Fairness
Than
Any
Based
It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that.
Peter Jason
Funny
You
Down
Extra
Crew
System
Caste
Never
Know
Liked
Well
Goes
Order
Star
Set
Pecking
But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.
Peter Lynch
Buy
You
Later
System
Has-Been
Bought
Over
Attractive
Sure
Go
Been
Years
Stocks
Them
Then
Lower
The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors.
Peter Maurer
Diversity
Increasing
Sector
System
Embrace
Diverse
Only
Variety
Ecosystem
Also
Traditional
Private
Private Sector
Should
Actor
Humanitarian
The issue of corruption in the humanitarian system is not an issue which is fundamentally different from dangers of corruption in other areas. One of the best ways to strengthen accountability is to engage in principled and law-based humanitarian action.
Peter Maurer
Best
Corruption
Accountability
Action
Other
Ways
Dangers
System
Area
Principled
Issue
Different
Which
Engage
Humanitarian
Fundamentally
Strengthen
People talk about the hair dryer and all this with Sir Alex Ferguson. What was really great about him, whatever happened in a game, he would spend whatever minutes it took him to get this out of this system and say whatever needed to be said. Once he said, 'Get your bath,' that was it. We knew that it would never return.
Peter Schmeichel
Great
Game
People
Hair
Whatever
Took
Bath
Spend
Once
Say
System
Out
Would
Minutes
About
Never
He
Knew
Talk
Him
Return
Dryer
Said
Ferguson
Sir
Get
Happened
Really
Your
Needed
Alex
Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.
Peter Schmeichel
Way
System
He
Sticks
Playing
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
Peter Thiel
Time
You
Degree
Think
Our
System
Something
Compute
Part
Part-Time
Global
Around
Real
Educational
Existing
Clock
Effort
Done
Intensity
Sustained
Anything
Cannot
Breakthroughs
Requires
When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.
Petra Collins
Work
You
Women
People
Plead
System
Online
Entry
Female
Female Artists
Got
How
Artists
Want
Loved
Anyway
Created
Who
Connected
Platform
Need
I truly believe that we have the best health care system in the world. It's not perfect, but this business of turning it over to the federal government to try to make it perfect is quite honestly asinine.
Phil Gingrey
Government
Best
Health
Business
World
Try
Not Perfect
Care
Believe
Honestly
System
Perfect
Federal
Federal Government
Over
Make
Health Care
Health Care System
Truly
Quite
Turning
We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.
Phil Neville
Work
You
System
Pick
Over
Learned
How
Years
Quite
Want
Play
Profiles
Right
Cog
Players
Flow
An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
Philip Greenspun
Work
Home
Welfare
Relative
Unmarried
Kids
System
Married
No Choice
Constantly
Staying
Parent
Adult
Merits
Versus
Cannot
Choice
Working
Paycheck
Evaluating
Who
Navigate
Second
Bringing
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.
Philip Hammond
Work
Education
Government
Generation
Communication
Law
Power
Broadband
System
Ministers
About
Delivering
Investing
Talk
Employment
Talking
Making
Reform
Infrastructure
Skills
Planning
Productivity
Transport
Britain
Raising
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman
Education
Me
Three
Reading
System
Entire
About
Something
Point
Point Of View
Through
Never
Had
Studying
Importance
Passed
Years
Oxford
Fiction
Literature
View
English
Basic
British
I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers' money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.
Phyllis Schlafly
Woman
Money
Welfare
Father
Made
Husband
Country
Believe
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Liberals
Solely
Worst
Worst Thing
Broke
System
Marriages
Johnson
Up
Did
Irrelevant
Which
Taxpayers
Thing
Millions
Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.
Pierre Omidyar
Work
Change
Problem
Way
Rules
System
Point
Point Of View
Come
Make
Different
Certain
Working
Engage
View
Certain Way
Different Way
Actually
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
Pierre Omidyar
Business
Trust
First
Other
System
Some
Someone
Develop
Another
Enabling
Person
Either
Measure
Based
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