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We have, as human beings, a storytelling
problem
. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Our two greatest
problems
are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His
problem
is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a
problem
to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English—it is a
problem
for the Department of Justice…. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.
Spiro Agnew
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My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the situation you are in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, too afraid of making the wrong decision. The
problem
is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.
When in doubt, do the next right thing.
Regina Brett
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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. … The
problem
, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the
problem
of 'conservation education'.
Aldo Leopold
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A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your
problem
, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Max Lucado
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I used to be a discipline
problem
, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline
problem
in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
Ishmael Reed
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical
problems
that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene Wigner
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We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans.. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current
problems
and current needs.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political
problems
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Fritz Sauckel
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Too often, people think that solving the world's
problems
is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
Chögyam Trungpa
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Violent crime is a solved
problem
- all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
L. Neil Smith
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To every
problem
there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
Grenville Kleiser
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Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the
problem
set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Each state is guided by its interests, not by some nebulous concept of common interest. And not many states are even democratic. So, you have a
problem
with the concept between international institutions and sovereignty. To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
George Soros
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo
problems
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Rudolf Carnap
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If you can talk brilliantly about a
problem
, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own
problems
, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George F. Kennan
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one
problem
they were born to understand.
Alberto Moravia
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Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my
problem
was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.
Carrie Fisher
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I thought a lot about our nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two
problems
of our country – energy and malaise.
Jimmy Carter
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Disarmament cannot be achieved nor can the
problem
of war be resolved without being accompanied by profound changes in the economic order and the structure of society.
A. J. Muste
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If a
problem
has no solution, it may not be a
problem
, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Shimon Peres
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The
problem
is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
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