Closed System

The term closed system has different meanings in different contexts.

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Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or system:

    “No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)