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"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true" »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Inflation is a force of pressure. If the socioeconomic system of a country is open and democratic, the pressure will dissipate via elections and peaceful change of government. On the other hand, if the system is closed, it might be able to contain the pressure for a while, but the pressure will continue to build up and at a certain point it will exceed the strength of the system causing it to crack. Rulers who learn from history and create a socioeconomic system that is open will achieve stability and continuity. Those who fight against these socioeconomic forces may win some battles in the short term, but they will lose the war." »Med Jones
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall
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"To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown
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"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich
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"The socioeconomic well-being theory explains that when the members of a sociopolitical system share the same economic interests and the existing system produces enough economic opportunities to meet the needs of the members, they are likely to tolerate existing differences and work together towards shared benefits. On the other hand, when the system fails to produce enough economic opportunities over a long period of time, the members of the system are likely to compete more aggressively for existing resources, causing divisions among the members to grow stronger. The degree of social cohesiveness will diminish and divisions could take different forms such as ethnic, religious and geographic conflicts and at times class warfare or civil wars. If not managed properly, such sociopolitical systems can become dysfunctional. If the dysfunction is left untreated, at a certain point it will take more energy to fix the system than to let it collapse.
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"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming
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"We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege." »Lawton Chiles
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"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing
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"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works." »John Gaule
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"American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections." »Med Jones
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"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand
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"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel
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"The maxim of the british people is 'Business as Usual.'" »Winston Churchill
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"To disagree with three-fourths of the british public is one of the first requisites of sanity." »Oscar Wilde
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"They say the sun never sets over the british Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded." »Steven Wright
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the british Museum." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Among the many misdeeds of the british rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the british rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Americans and british have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" »Alexis Sayle
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the british Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill
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"N.B. This quote refers to the british disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day." »Anonymous
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"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the british public." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The british nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst." »Winston Churchill
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"Winston Churchill was not entirely british. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian." »Rachel Blanchard
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