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This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.
Charles Boustany
Good
Welfare
Become
Difficult
Good Intentions
Fragmented
Programs
System
Out
Administer
Cost
Federal
May
Intentions
Maze
Confusing
Poorly
Large
Growing
Coordinated
Started
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens
Pay
System
He
Another
Person
Gets
Whereby
Who
Credit
Guarantee
Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
Charles Koch
History
Injustice
People
Welfare
Thought
Unjust
Changes
Corporate
System
Wealthy
Only
Because
Get
American
Any
American History
Social
Social Changes
Show
Who
Deserve
Freedom is a system based on courage.
Charles Peguy
Freedom
Courage
System
Based
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Man
Sometimes
Will
Harmony
Philosophers
Strike
Inquiring
System
Out
Finding
Facts
Most
Scientific
Been
Than
Intent
Less
Belief
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
Cherie Blair
Education
Food
Legal
People
Society
System
Yes
Legal System
Any
Need
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
Chesley Sullenberger
Fragmented
System
Operate
Within
Any
As Far As
Far
Skilled
Aviation
Dedicated
Professionals
Medical
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
Chuck Todd
Day
Culture
Old
Congress
Ways
System
Some
Revolt
Seniority
Against
Public
Might
Ingrained
Old Ways
Washington
Keep
Actually
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
Colin Powell
Anger
Political
Reflect
Enough
Back
Our
System
Economy
Occupy
Occupy Wall Street
How
Demonstrations
Fix
Wall
Wall Street
Get
Political System
Going
Just
Scream
Again
Street
Start
Need
The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.
Constance Jablonski
Life
Good
Family
Try
Old
Old Friends
System
Easy
Staying
Head
Support
Friends
Close
Model
Shoulders
Keep
Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
Daniel Gilbert
You
Happy
Emotions
World
Unhappy
Pressure
Fluctuate
Back
Guides
System
Through
Between
Like
Supposed
How
Blood
Blood Pressure
Move
Just
Forth
Meant
Your
I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.
Daniel Tammet
Nature
Experience
Intelligence
Mind
Reflect
Own
Believe
Hesitate
System
Complexity
My Own
More
Potential
Fact
Could
Know
His
Than
Person
Any
In Fact
Meaningfully
Much
Really
Describe
Uniqueness
Her
Number
You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.
David Green
You
Sunday
Live
Other
System
Days
Six
Six Days
Belief
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.
Dean Kamen
History
Quality
People
Seen
Recording
Incredible
Our
System
Some
Developing
Since
Devices
Quantity
Greatest
Healthcare
Intellect
Improve
Human
Achievements
Lives
Started
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
Politics
Political
Election
President
Else
States
Says
System
One Thing
About
Something
Something Else
He
Takes
Leaves
Brag
Office
Political System
United
United States
Thing
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
You
Genius
Simple
Simplicity
System
Operating
Operating System
Understand
Basically
UNIX
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond Tutu
Me
South Africa
System
Segregated
Roads
Reminded
Occupied
Housing
Territory
Witnessed
Been
South
Conditions
Africa
Experienced
Apartheid
Much
Palestinian
I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.
Don Winslow
Justice
Think
Criminal
Our
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Corrected
Corrections
System
About
Rethink
Named
Ideas
Look
Policing
None
Being
Mean
Should
Working
Whole
Including
Need
Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
E. Joseph Cossman
Work
You
Goals
System
Instead
Nail
Hammer
Should
Working
Your
People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.
Elizabeth Warren
People
System
Part
Feel
Like
Against
Them
Painful
Rigged
Right
Here
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
Ellen G. White
Work
Food
Nature
Burden
Benefit
System
Put
Stomach
Cannot
Derive
Her
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Elon Musk
Fear
Nervous
Say
System
Distracting
Nervous System
Fact
Emotion
Like
Because
Very
Fries
Lack
In Fact
Less
From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.
Emile Durkheim
Man
Degree
Animals
Nothing
System
Physical
Case
Mental
More
Only
Point
Point Of View
He
Than
Cells
Either
View
Differs
We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.
Emma Gonzalez
Background
System
Purchases
Weapons
Magazines
Comprehensive
Records
Push
Checks
Loopholes
Ban
Close
Mandate
Assault
Extensive
Universal
Need
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
Truth
Before
Worn
System
Out
Some
Sees
Point
Individual
He
Himself
Practiced
His
Error
Errors
Gets
Essential
Establish
Being
Hold
Many
Marginal
Heretic
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
Florynce Kennedy
Oppression
Become
System
Unnecessary
Individuals
Institutionalized
Oppressive
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