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• Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.

  Eoin Colfer

  Fashion, Killing Someone, Opal

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• There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Believe, People, Incentives

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• Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

  Steve de Shazer

  Talking, Focus, Psychology

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• The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

  Wes Moore

  Opportunity, Men, Cities

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• Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.

  Star Parker

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Government

  Star Parker (2015). “Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America”, p.6, Sumner Books

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Trying, Literature

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• Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Perfect, Mazes, Looks

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Politics, Problem

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• You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

  Bill Joy

  Positive Life, Technology, Management

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• Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

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• Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

  Emanuel Celler

  Political, Lawlessness, Problem

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.

  Telle Whitney

  Diversity, Innovation, Limits

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• To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Mistake, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2016

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• Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

  Paul Ormerod

  Baseball, Player, Needs

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Doubt, Action, Theory

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

  Ken Follett

  Strong Women, Book, Hero

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• The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

  Bill Gates

  Computer, Problem, Born

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• What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.

  T. Harv Eker

  Problem, Without You, Persons

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 18, 2014

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• Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.

  Simon Sinek

  Creativity, Looks, Problem

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2010

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• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Believe, Recovery, Self Confidence

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