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• Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.

  Rene Descartes

  Hands, Pieces, Difficulty

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• Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

  James Altucher

  Worry, Energy, Today

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• Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, College, Rights

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.70, Pantheon

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• Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.

  Ron Willingham

  Problem, Consistent, Ability

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• ...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

  Amy Hill Hearth

  Giving, Trying, Answers

  Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics.

  Eve Hewson

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.

  Dennis Prager

  War, Lying, Taken

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• Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Law, Creating

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• Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Problem, Theme, Mortals

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

  Julian Barnes

  Couple, Tasks, Breakfast

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• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

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• If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Light, Knowing, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

  Albert Einstein

  Leader, Problem, Managers

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• Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Animal, Men

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• Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.

  Stuart Duncan

  People, Autism, Ignorant

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• It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.

  Christopher Alexander

  Circles, Pieces, Common Experience

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• Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

  Keith Waterhouse

  Looks, Problem, Politician

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• History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.

  Janet Macunovich

  Weather, Gardening, Mystery

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Ignorance, Thinking, Engineering

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• We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

  James Cook

  Problem, Welfare, Social

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• Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophical, Angel, Mind

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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• Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Creating, Problem

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• Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Obamacare, People

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• Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

  Aimee Mann

  Way, Dignity, Problem

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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