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• The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Needs, Problem, Ability

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• The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Joy, Tasks

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• That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

  Gary Paulsen

  Problem

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such as how to get inner-city kids to spend $175 on shoes. They serve as a backdrop for some of our most memorable commercials. And they remain the one and only relevant application of math. Not only that, but we have sports to thank for most of the last century's advances in manliness. The system starts in school, where gym class separates the men from the boys. Then those men are taught to be winners, or at least, losers that hate themselves.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sports, Hate, Kids

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• I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wise, Country, Dream

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• The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

  Susan Cain

  Art, Thinking, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

  John Green

  Way, Towns, Mystery

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.111, A&C Black

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• The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Independent

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

  Jacques Barzun

  Philosophy, Men, Age

  Jacques Barzun (1961). “Classic, Romantic, and Modern”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

  George McGovern

  Taken, Government, Order

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• I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Numbers, Giving

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• The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed.

  Paul Burrell

  Home, People, Perception

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• I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

  Thom Yorke

  Jigsaw Puzzles, People, Special

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• I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.

  Thom Yorke

  War, Blow, President

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• You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social, or political.

  Vaclav Havel

  Dream, Independent, People

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• Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

  Leon Krier

  Limited Resources, Fundamentals, Problem

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.136, Island Press

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• I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

  Steven Biko

  People, Heaven, Black

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• I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Knights, Difficult Situations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

  David Blaine

  Beautiful, Creating, Magic

  Time Out Interview with Brett Martin, April 1, 1999.

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• South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fall, Government, Years

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• I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

  Martti Ahtisaari

  Thinking, Effort, Community

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. October 10, 2008.

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• A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Real, Science, Engineering

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