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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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• 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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• The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

  Ayn Rand

  Dream

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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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• 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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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

  Esther Dyson

  Powerful, People, Advice

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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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• Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.

  Pema Chodron

  Small Problems, Roots, Needs

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• If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

  Willem de Kooning

  Happiness, Artist, Ifs

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• Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Believe, Single Mom, Writing

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• Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Law, Depth

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.

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• I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

  Robert Motherwell

  Opposites, Trying, Painting

  Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

  Anthony Burgess

  Divorce, America, Auras

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

  Paul Dickson

  Accuracy, Courses, Knows

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• We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, Looks, Use

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.56, Indiana University Press

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• I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

  Lionel Blue

  Giving, Said

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• We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Thinking, Focus, Asking

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2009). “The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul”, p.52, The Golden Sufi Center

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• It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Labyrinth, Exit

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Movement in Art", p. 14, 1985.

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• We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

  Paul Brown

  Mad Cow Disease, United States, Cows

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• Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Looks, Viewpoints, Figures

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• Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.

  Simon Schama

  Cameras, Moors, Damn

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• A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

  Lee Haney

  Merit, Has Beens, Written

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