Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?
Alice Dreger
PressureWonderWhySystemNatural
The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.
Alexis Denisof
BestManCorruptionDownSystem
To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
Mike Huckabee
GoodMeTaxSystemFiniteFour
Estonia maintains a two-language school system. I don't know many countries in the world that provide a system like ours. We are making sure that our Russian-speaking minority feels comfortable and involved in this country.
Kersti Kaljulaid
SchoolWorldCountryKnowSystem
As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
Ben Bernanke
FinancialProblemMoralTrySystem
I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.
Jerrod Carmichael
HistoryClassSystemUseLearned
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
William Whewell
FactsNewClassMoreFalseSystem
VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.
Alexandra Adornetto
DiversitySkillsMeanSystemMost
The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.
Michelle Alexander
SuccessBlackSystemIncarceration
If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.
Jane Poynter
SpaceInsideSystemLivedBeen
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Waylon Jennings
TryingYouKnowSystemDestroyUs
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
Joel Salatin
FoodMoreIndustrialSystemFuel
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
William Howard Taft
RestBadTwoYearsSystemMay
It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.
Alan Sugar
BravePersonWillSystemTakeWho
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.
BackMovement1950sSystemOurSome
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
James Surowiecki
PeopleRealitySystemChangingWax
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
Walther Bothe
TodayMoreEventsFirstTwoSystem
Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.
Jeremy Corbyn
SinglePointSystemActMarketMuch
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Phil Donahue
CharityOthersDollarSystemAgainst
You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.
Alan Stern
AmazingYouSolarLittleSystem
I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system that I like to say I was traumatized into feminism.
Mona Eltahawy
FamilySayLivingFeminismSystem
I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this was the ultimate: Mississippi was the place you had to break it.
James Meredith
PlanYouWhitePlaceSystemBreak
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
SlaveryMeanSystemCruelDidSouth
Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.
John Ensign
TodayTruthJusticeGoalSystemOur
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