Reprioritizes Quotes & Sayings

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does. — Russell L. Ackoff

well-functioning market requires all three types of investors for socially beneficial projects to have access to cheap capital. Value investors allocate capital to its most productive use. Speculators, because they trade frequently, provide the liquidity and trading volume that allows value investors and relative value traders to execute their trades cheaply. They also ensure that information is disseminated quickly. — Michael Pettis

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about. — Jonathan Demme

Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in. — Suzy Kassem

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you. — Tom Clancy

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death. — Martin Luther

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents. — Bryce Courtenay

More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit. — Tim Murphy

I'm confident that it is with the strength of the poor that India will move forward. — Narendra Modi

Beware the man who beguiles you, Lori-Angel. Those are the ones who won't commit to you. Oh, they'll show you wonders, to be sure, and they'll spin your head with their pleasurable ways. But in the end, they always leave you and your broken heart far behind. Believe me, 'tis better to have the simple hound than to follow the fox. Though the fox is fairer to behold, the hound knows where his home is and dutifully he stays, while the handsome fox is ever off to find new game. (Anne Bonny) — Kinley MacGregor

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. — Earl Warren