Major Problems Quotes

• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Problem, Life Is, Interruptions

  "Quick Guide & Transcript: Review the week's headlines, Reflect on the last days of MLK". "CNN Student News", www.cnn.com. January 18, 2007.

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• Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!

  Jim Rohn

  Demand, Problem, Rich

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2017

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• While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, People, May

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.90, Penguin

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• Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Government, Problem

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• Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Wise, Integrity, Philosophical

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• It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Atheist, Problem

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

  Jacques Ellul

  Spiritual, Fighting, Numbers

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• I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.

  Augustus Napier

  Sex, Kissing, Rooms

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Growing Up, Thinking, Cynical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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• Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.

  Joel Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

  James T. Farrell

  Lonely, Loneliness, Party

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Engineering, Balance

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• The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.

  Donald A. Norman

  Errors, Use, Development

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Don Norman, ch. 10, 1998.

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• You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Boys, Men

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

  Li Keqiang

  Light, Environmental, Development

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• It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

  Miriam Toews

  Enemy, Firsts, Problem

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• Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Mistake, Two

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

  Walter E. Williams

  Tree, Feelings, Forests

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• One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Long, Radiation

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.

  Lawrence Wilkerson

  Office, Long, People

  Interview with Daniel Schulman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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• When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.

  Philippe Petit

  Strong, Wind, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think it's ok to judge others and put people down. However, it should be ok to be concerned about the health of someone which could leader to major problems in their future.

  Scott Herman

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Creating, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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