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• What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible!

  Philip K. Chapman

  Believe, Mean, Health

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• The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Clouds, Feet

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• Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Laughter, Suffering

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• Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

  Winston Churchill

  Garden, Growth, Fascinating

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, Unity, Painting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

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• This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Democracy, Miscellaneous

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.56, Da Capo Press

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• We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Dirty, Listening

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• I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Mean, Past

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• I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

  Henry Moore

  Eye, Ideas, Drawing

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• Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Evil, Confusing

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• The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Vices, World, Drink

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• The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

  Phil Jackson

  Player, Return, Size

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• Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

  William Styron

  Writing, One Word, Just One

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

  Thomas Sowell

  Communication, Decision, Fragments

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.26, Basic Books

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• I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

  Clive Barker

  Thinking, Fiction, Way

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• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Literature, Gender

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• A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Successful, Games, Chess Game

  Norbert Wiener (1953). “Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth”

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• A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Helping, Theory, Solve

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.

  David Hockney

  Believe, Interesting, Way

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Together, Too Much, Sides

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• Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Victory, Mixtures, Life Is

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.42, Bantam

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• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, What Matters, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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