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• To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

  Lorne Michaels

  Writing, Creativity, Lines

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• If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Care, Matter

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 07, 2012

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• What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise

  Doreen Virtue

  Block, Blessing, Disguise

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2016

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Special, Males

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.83, Basic Books

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• Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Lewis E. Hahn (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1916-1917”, p.46, SIU Press

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• We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Iran, Revolution, Mood

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

  Valentino Garavani

  Morning, Sleep, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

  Valentino Garavani

  Sports, Ferrari, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Mystery

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• My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

  Mac Miller

  People, Forget, Very Happy

  "Mac Miller’s Tour Kicks Off As He Talks ‘Watching Movies with the Sound Off,’ Molly, And His Unexpected Success" by Madeline Boardman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

  Justin Long

  Tired, Character, Thinking

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Believe, Recovery, Self Confidence

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• If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Taken, Missing, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.94, New World Library

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• The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

  Neil Postman

  News, Television, World

  Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.72, Vintage

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• ...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place. And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the Michigan State Medical Society as a body. Recommending the addition of a trace of iodine to table salt.

  David Murray Cowie

  Simple, Iodine, Would Be

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• Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Strong, Communication, Together

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Light, Self

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• Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Justice, Majority, Opinion

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• It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

  Ann Beattie

  Order, Diaries, Boring

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

  Bede Griffiths

  Change, Heart, Body

  Bede Griffiths (1997). “A Human Search: Bede Griffiths Reflects on His Life : an Oral History”, Liguori Publications

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• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Country, Iran

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• So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

  Harry Reid

  Change, House, Want

  "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.

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• We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

  Bob Riley

  Change, Past, Opportunity

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