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• I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.

  Richard Schmid

  Mean, Thinking, Starting Over

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• I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Color, Ordinary, Landscape

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• So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Children, Suits You, Creative

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• Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Reality, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Age, Aging, Should

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

  Brigham Young

  Tomorrow, Labor

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• The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Mean, Technology

  "Triumph of the Nerds", June 12, 1996.

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• It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Wells, Seventeen

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• One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Satisfaction, Life Is

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• ... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Uplifting, Mean, Achievement

  Norman Vincent Peale (1982). “The amazing results of positive thinking”, Fawcett

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• The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Use, Fundamentals, Politics

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Population Problem, Decision

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.42, Best Books on

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• Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Believe, Overcoming

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• In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Simple, Political

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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Law, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

  Richard Codey

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Men, Eight

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• Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.

  Jewel

  Loyalty, Character, Responsibility

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• In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Government, People, Political

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• Money is a never-ending problem.

  Alvin Ailey

  Never Ending

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• Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Hard Work, Democracy, Accepting

  The New York Times, January 15, 1961; later quoted in Jacob Morton Braude "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (p. 173), 1962.

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• India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Choices, India, May

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• Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Two, Presidential

  Remarks at town meeting, Bardstown, Ky., 31 July 1979, referring to a speech on energy and national goals broadcast 15 July 1979.

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