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Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:

    Social and scientific progress are assured, sir, once our great system of postpossession payments is in operation, not the installment plan, no sir, but a system of small postpossession payments that clinch the investment. No possible rational human wish unfulfilled. A man with a salary of fifty dollars a week can start payments on a Rolls-Royce, the Waldorf-Astoria, or a troupe of trained seals if he so desires.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    Ask of her, the mighty mother:
    Her reply puts this other
    Question: What is Spring?—
    Growth in everything.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)