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• As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.

  Brahmagupta

  Stars, Men, People

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• With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

  Clay Shirky

  Data, Digital, Problem

  "Clay Shirky analyzes the newspaper Holocaust" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 14, 2009.

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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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• The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.

  Khem Veasna

  Ignorance, People, Problem

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• The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

  John M. Carroll

  Design, Problem, Worst

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• There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fighting, Roots, Wealth Creation

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• It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.

  Peter Gleick

  Rain, People, Littles

  "California's water deficit: 11 trillion gallons" by Kurtis Alexander, www.sfgate.com. December 16, 2014.

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• It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Grace, Challenges, And Love

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• Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Morality, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2126, Delphi Classics

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• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  J. K. Rowling

  Problem, Felt

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• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, Winning, Parent

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• The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Rewards, Problem, Difficult

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• After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Silence, Despair

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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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• At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

  Howard Aiken

  Mean, Problem, Difficulty

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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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• It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Philosopher, Problem

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 75e), 1980.

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• We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

  Mao Zedong

  Practice, Principles, Helping

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Immigration, United States, Needs

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• Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

  Saul Alinsky

  Asking, Problem, Diarrhea

  "Saul Alinsky: A candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer". Interview with Eric Norden, Playboy, 19 (3), March 1972.

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• This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Memories, Military, Drawing

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

  Northrop Frye

  Thinking, Answers, Literature

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.437, University of Toronto Press

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