#stems

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. ↗

— Karl Rove

#different #europe #got #perfect #select

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

#america #anybody #confront #cunning #fact

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#creations #living #might #only #solar

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#coast #east #east coast #find #first

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros. ↗

— Mark Sanchez

#being #best #close #coaching #coaching staff

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. ↗

— Otto Schily

#adventurous #attacks #been #bus #circulating

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. ↗

— Tony Scott

#business #describing #enterprise #fully #functionality