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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today ...

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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w...

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All problems are illusions of the mind.

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Eckhart TollePracticing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do ...

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The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it...

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It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life ...

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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of...

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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...

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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any p...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing...

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors...

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My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an '...

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So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as ...

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The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any...

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How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skel...

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If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who i...

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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's pr...

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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the ...

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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train our...

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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anythi...

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Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology...

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A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know no...

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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a prob...

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The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some da...

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the s...

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...

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I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back pr...

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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'O...

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No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psych...

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Change the problem by changing your mind.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale u...

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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem wa...

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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intellige...

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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that matte...

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...

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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mo...

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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education sys...

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the enti...

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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you o...

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I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousa...

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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams sh...

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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up a...

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The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your p...

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An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The ...

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The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come...

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The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our cult...

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect th...

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I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... T...

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance wh...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our ...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I...

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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to ta...

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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly inclu...

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While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been abso...

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What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne ...

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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the r...

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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't co...

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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unio...

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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not...

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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem...

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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My p...

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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from person...

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Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it...

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We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo...

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We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo...

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We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo...

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We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo...

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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial...

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If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 1...

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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t b...

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Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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René DescartesDiscourse on Method

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water probl...

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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.