Donella H. Meadows

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Thinking in Systems

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Feedback loops are essential to the functioning of systems.

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In systems, everything is connected to everything else.

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The world is a complex place, and systems thinking helps us to understand it.

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Systems thinking is a way of seeing the world that emphasizes the relationships between things.

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The behavior of a system is not determined by the parts alone, but by their interactions.

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A system is a set of things interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time.

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Systems thinking is a way of seeing, a way of understanding the world.

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The better we understand systems, the better we can design interventions.

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You can’t change one part of a system without changing the whole thing.

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A system is more than the sum of its parts.

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