"Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property."

-- Nancy Leveson

#Safety Quotes #Property Quotes #Components Quotes

“I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.”
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.”
“Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, â€œFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for manyâ€ (Mark 10:45).”

Source : Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.44, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please . . . . Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.”
“It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.”
“Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.”
“Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list,”

Source : "A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip". www.nytimes.com. April 18, 2013.

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