#stems

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#democracy #good #i #other #say

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#elements #emphasis #empirical #empirical fact #fact

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#could #everything #fellow #fellow citizens #happen

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#already #became #been #everything #five

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. ↗

— Anne Perry

#based #beings #breeding #buy #class

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. ↗

— Jon Postel

#get #high #home #over #speed

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#bending #blossoms #carry #confidant #cordial

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#melancholy #stems

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics. ↗

— Lara St. John

#based #been #harmonics #historically #notes

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #indistinguishable #itself #organism #sense