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• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Home, Might

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.

  Ellen Sandell

  Leadership, Fall, Firsts

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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 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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• One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

  Larry Brilliant

  Mean, People, Google

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, Wish, Firsts

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• When I get angry, it's with purpose. My purpose is to solve a problem. And I never lose sight of that.

  Jon Taffer

  Sight, Purpose, Problem

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!

  Yatin Patel

  Kids, Puzzles

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• Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

  Andy Rooney

  Kids, Use, Computer

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• Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Technology, Men

  1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

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• When you approach your baby with an attitude of respect, you let him know what you intend to do and give him a chance to respond. You assume he is competent and involve him in his care and let him, as much as possible, solve his own problems. You give him plenty of physical freedom and you don't push development.

  Magda Gerber

  Baby, Attitude, Giving

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