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• Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Elements, Problem, Given

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.282, 1982.

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• There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Roots

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• In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

  Barack Obama

  War, Lying, Heart

  "President Obama Ends American Combat Mission in Iraq, Looks Ahead to Afghanistan". 'Special Report With Bret Baier' with Steve Hayes, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthammer, www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2010.

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• Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

  Georges Bernanos

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Ideas, Roots

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• Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

  Joss Whedon

  Littles, Bigger, Puzzles

  "No. 1 Fan Joss Whedon on 'Veronica Mars'". ew.com. October 11, 2005.

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Hard Work, Writing

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• We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Problem, Evolve, Ten

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• Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

  Joan Robinson

  Law, Progress, Details

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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• At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Math, Winning, Cities

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.

  Jonathan Alter

  Dream, Country, Eight

  Jonathan Alter (2007). “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.

  Chalene Johnson

  Sports, Hurt, Exercise

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• To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Men, Understanding, Needs

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.38, Columbia University Press

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• Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Creativity, Technology

  NPR Interview, 1974.

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• I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Simple, Tools, Problem

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2010

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• Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?

  Henry Dunant

  Christian, Taken, Trying

  "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 66, 1862.

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• Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Country, Strong, Mean

  "Giffords Wins Re-election to U.S. House; Kelly Says Voters Have Spoken". Sierra Vista Herald, November 06, 2010.

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• I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones.

  Joao Magueijo

  Use, Problem, Felt

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.

  Hugh Everett III

  Smart, Men, Thinking

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• I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

  Reinhold Messner

  Climbing, Mountain, Want

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• To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the norm and who will love their jobs; make sure that their ideas and opinions are heard and respected; then give them the freedom to help and solve problems for your customers. Rather than providing rules or scripts, you should ask them to treat the customer as they themselves would like to be treated - which is surely the highest standard.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Believe, Ideas

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• When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.

  Jack Kornfield

  Summer, Stars, Lying

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• You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

  Matina Horner

  Life, Thinking, Connections

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• The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the non-material things that are inherently important: the work of mind and spirit that is gloriously and uniquely human, the work that no machine can ever do.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Mind, Important

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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