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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a
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to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker
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-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
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Some
problems
are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter
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I love living. I have some
problems
with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil Simon
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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary
problem
.
Phil Donahue
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Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized
problem
for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles. We are also the greatest destroyer of life since the ten-kilometer-wide meteorite that landed near Yucatan and ended the Age of Reptiles sixty-five million years ago. Through overpopulation we have put ourselves in danger of running out of food and water. So a very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson
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Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that
problem
is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
Margaret Sanger
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to
problems
only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
Albert Bandura
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The
problem
with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Paula Poundstone
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The [Nobel ]prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific
problems
and then watching its responses.
Barbara McClintock
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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your
problems
, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
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This remark provides the key to the
problem
, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Religion is not a movement stretching out to grasp something, external, tangible, and good, and to possess it. It is a form of being, not having, a mode of life. Spiritual life is not a
problem
to be solved but a reality to be experienced. It is new birth into enlightenment.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no
problem
. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
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Real understanding of a thing comes from taking it apart oneself, not reading about it in a book or hearing about it in a classroom. To this day I always insist on working out a
problem
from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
Robert B. Laughlin
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I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this
problem
will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other
problems
in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Andrew Wiles
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one
problem
at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The
problem
of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The
problem
of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.
Virginia Woolf
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Sexuality is the key to the
problem
of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
Sigmund Freud
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I gave up caring about anything, and all the
problems
disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November — on the third of November, to be precise — and I remember every instant since.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's
problem
just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X
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At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone. The moment I decided I'd rather be alone and not have anyone telling me their
problems
, everybody I'd never even seen before in my life started running after me to tell me things I'd just decided I didn't think it was a good idea to hear about. As soon as I became a loner in my own mind, that's when I got what you might call a "following." As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
Andy Warhol
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I do believe in simplicity. When the mathematician would solve a difficult
problem
he first frees the equation from all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms.
Henry David Thoreau
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When you face a
problem
, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.
Dale Carnegie
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