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• It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

  Valentino Garavani

  Sports, Ferrari, Bigs

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

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• No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Special, Males

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.83, Basic Books

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• We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Thinking, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.52, New World Library

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• It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

  Stan Brakhage

  Simple, People, Visionaries

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• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Mind, Bombs, Matter

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• If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Care, Matter

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 07, 2012

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• People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Mystery

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Lewis E. Hahn (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1916-1917”, p.46, SIU Press

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• I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

  Valentino Garavani

  Morning, Sleep, Energy

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

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• This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

  Bede Griffiths

  Change, Heart, Body

  Bede Griffiths (1997). “A Human Search: Bede Griffiths Reflects on His Life : an Oral History”, Liguori Publications

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• Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Character, Years, Intellectual

  Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Hair, Doors, Self

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• Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

  Bob Lutz

  Fighting, Science, Engineering

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• Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Strong, Communication, Together

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Light, Self

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• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Country, Iran

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• Technically, you can’t fault Jadeja. Seam or spin, fast or slow every goddamn thing is a problem.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Faults

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

  Ann Beattie

  Order, Diaries, Boring

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• ...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place. And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the Michigan State Medical Society as a body. Recommending the addition of a trace of iodine to table salt.

  David Murray Cowie

  Simple, Iodine, Would Be

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• Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Justice, Majority, Opinion

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• So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

  Harry Reid

  Change, House, Want

  "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.

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• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Country, Literature, Time Passing

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