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Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
Andrew Young
School
Everybody
Our
Way
Systems
Some
Emotional
No-One
Support
Learn
Without
Learns
Same
Realize
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
Arundhati Roy
You
Fight
Impossible
Made
Fighting
Way
Systems
Weapons
Ability
Fact
Wits
Cunning
Iraqis
America
Anybody
Confront
Your
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
Barry Commoner
Environmental
People
Fault
Agriculture
Energy
Sick
Our
Crisis
Systems
Arises
Make
Industry
Die
Essential
Production
Transportation
Fundamental
No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.
Brian Kernighan
Life
Work
You
Technology
People
Matter
Big
Systems
About
Something
Advantage
Devices
Know
Operate
How
Going
Interact
Your
Technical
It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.
Dan Kaminsky
Gone
Secret
Systems
Somehow
Hacked
Hacking
Open
Almost
Mainstream
Almost All
Spoken
Fairly
Quite
Less
Actually
Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.
Deeyah Khan
Time
Change
Old
Systems
Take
Leave
Deeply
Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
Drew Endy
Build
Understanding
Engineering
Design
Systems
Able
Rather
Perform
Particular
Want
Necessarily
Applications
Biological
Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.
Ezra Miller
World
Judgment
Every
Everybody
Ranking
Systems
Outcast
Vastly
Almost
Almost All
Feels
Like
Another
Because
Dogmatic
Different
Standards
Large
Beliefs
Societies
The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.
Frans van Houten
Become
Strategy
Our
Systems
Volcano
Advances
Leading
Acquire
Agreement
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.
Henry Petroski
Events
Space
Accidents
Design
Later
Once
Those
Systems
Open
Columbia
Failings
Well
Call
Leave
However
Undesirable
Expected
Forgotten
Predicted
Titanic
Engineers
Challenger
Technological
Fates
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Good
Democracy
Other
Worse
Say
Systems
Because
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget
Reality
Adequately
Systems
Correspond
More
More Or Less
Constructing
Knowing
Transformations
Means
Less
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
John B. S. Haldane
Fear
Long
National
Research
Think
Our
Systems
Economic
Scientific
Scientific Research
However
Continue
Little
Present
The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.
Jordan Peterson
Freedom
Technology
Gift
Wealth
Political
Opportunity
Luxury
Our
Ancestors
Systems
Economic
Highly
Particularly
West
Surrounds
Infrastructure
Us
Comparatively
Functional
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Nature
Down
Trees
Giant
Oak
Systems
Rarely
How
Times
Blown
May
Regardless
Storms
Height
Root
Deep
Extend
Violent
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Class
Together
Oppression
Gender
Society
Systems
Ability
Examples
Only
Bound
Cultural
Influenced
Patterns
Race
Ethnicity
Include
Interrelated
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
Lysander Spooner
Government
People
Oppression
Will
Stronger
Nothing
Else
Our
Extreme
Systems
Would
Would-Be
Plunder
Cases
Governments
Than
Little
Organized
Resist
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Survival
Better
Believe
Our
Systems
Becoming
Very
Depends
Us
Thinkers
There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
Michael Nesmith
Seen
Research
Bit
Out
Systems
Logic
Take
Self-Evident
Fairly
Industry
Very
Prize
Little
Little Bit
Might
Straightforward
Certain
It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.
Mike Pompeo
Government
Communication
Other
Our
Secretary
Secretary Clinton
Extremely
Secrets
Systems
Would
Would-Be
Vital
Following
Naive
Adversaries
Most
Because
Conclude
Clinton
Than
America
Hands
Official
Intentionally
Anything
Avoided
Using
Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.
Noam Chomsky
Unlike
Hundreds
Systems
Weapons
Inspection
Join
Allow
Delivery
Advanced
Non-Proliferation
Israel
Iran
Refuses
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Treaty
For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.
Robert Kiyosaki
Death
Example
Down
Enough
Collapse
System
Systems
Follows
Cases
Something
For Example
Most
Human
Just
Human Body
Just One
Body
Shut
Cardiovascular
My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.
Rony Abovitz
Life
Mom
Me
Will
Engineering
Astronauts
Systems
Mars
Support
Because
Said
Go
Going
Convinced
Dad
Biomedical
Need
At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Fight
Corruption
World
Our
Collect
Systems
Recover
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Clients
Governance
Improve
Stolen
Bank
Taxes
Working
World Bank
Assets
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
You
Business
Quality
Too
Relationships
Systems
Total
Perfect
Until
Principle
Continuously
Escapes
Improve
Managers
Cannot
Interdependent
Processes
Many
Interpersonal
Cardinal
We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.
Steve Jobs
Day
You
Think
Fragmented
Systems
Android
More
Know
Forced
Becoming
Integrated
Very
Model
User
Apple
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