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• As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Men, Winning

  Henry George (1898). “Social Problems”

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• We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.

  Barack Obama

  Tears, Problem, Certain

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• There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mean, Difficulty, Human Experience

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Thinking, Cooking, Substance

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  Nan Hayworth

  Smart, Commitment, Honor

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• While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  United States, World, Today

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.

  Brewster Kahle

  Want, Problem, Hard

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• We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Government, Issues, Long

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• There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Law, Phrases

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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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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• We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Envy, Hatred, Way

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• There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

  Charlie Huston

  Thinking, Research, Littles

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• We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Government

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• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

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• Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mean, Thinking, Class

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• Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Party, Winning

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• I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Cutting, Men, Errors

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• Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Feelings, Emotion, Problem

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

  Jacob Bronowski

  Helping, Problem, Theory

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

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• Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Men, Thinking, Greed

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

  Robert Zoellick

  Problem

  "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

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• One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Choices, Looks, Path

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Rays, Analysis, Crystals

  Dorothy Hodgkin (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Self

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• What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

  Marvin Minsky

  Ignorance, Skills, Names

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