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• The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

  Robert Motherwell

  Feelings, Needs, Language

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.

  John Cleese

  Needs, Come Up, Pondering

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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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• Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

  Rollo May

  Dedication, Missing, Answers

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• Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

  Jim Elliot

  Environmental Health, Bird, Population

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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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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• You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Skills, Asking, Increase

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.100, Dell

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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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• I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

  Herman Cain

  Politics, Politician, Problem Solvers

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• Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

  Vince Cable

  Mps, People, Vote

  "Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.

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• When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Care, Pay, Failing

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• What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

  Nelson Goodman

  Needs, Lines, Intrigue

  Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

  Ben Horowitz

  Majority, Example, Break

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• To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

  Chris Hadfield

  Education, Simple, Wind

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women and children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe will lead to such an outcome.

  Barbara Lee

  Running, Children, Military

  "Congress has given Bush a free hand - and that puts more lives at risk". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2001.

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• I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.

  Kal Penn

  Thinking, Political, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Australia, Listening, Television

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• Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Iraq, Rejection, Would Be

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• Don't fight your problem. Know that there is a solution.

  Joseph Murphy

  Fighting, Knows, Solutions

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• Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

  Charles H. Brower

  Creativity, People, Conformity

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• We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Years, May, Evolution

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