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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
- Thomas Paine
Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession.
- Thomas Paine
The Obamacare roll-out was an epic failure.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Order is Heaven's first law.
- Dale Carnegie
It is plain that complete havoc must be made of the whole system of revealed truth, unless we consent to derive our philosophy from the Bible, instead of explaining the Bible by our philosophy.
- Charles Hodge
If the facts of Scripture are what Augustinians believe them to be, then the Augustinian system is the only possible system of theology. If those facts be what Romanists or Remonstrants take them to be, then their system is the only true one. It is important that the theologian should know his place. He is not master of the situation. He can no more construct a system of theology to suit his fancy, than the astronomer can adjust the mechanism of the heavens according to his own good pleasure.
- Charles Hodge
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
- Kamala Harris
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
- Ellen White
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
- Gloria Steinem
There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.
- Paul Allen
it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.
- Oscar Wilde
Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting.
- Dallas Willard