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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Democracies Have, Race, Intelligence

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• Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Causes, Cunning

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• It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

  William J. Brennan

  Unemployment, Cost, Welfare

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• For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?

  Laszlo Bock

  Teamwork, Team Building, Care

  "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.

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• It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.

  Laszlo Bock

  Teamwork, Humility, Responsibility

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• There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

  Andreas Moritz

  Life, Fun, Light

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• In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Law

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• The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Life, Intelligent, Essence

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• All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Life, Nature, Flower

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• The heart of the problem is a problem with the heart.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Heart

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• Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Relief, Cures

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• You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Sin, Marriage Problems

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• If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.

  Ronald Dunn

  Jobs, Hobbies, Leisure

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• Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Pain, Worry, Effort

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• If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

  Richard Moss

  Life, Believe, Past

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• Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Frustration, Ego Problem

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• I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.

  Erin McCarthy

  Love, Mean, Hair

  Erin McCarthy (2013). “True”, p.117, Penguin

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• The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Luxury, People

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• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Science, Natural, Counting

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• Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, People, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 12, 2014

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• Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Self, Perspective

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