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• The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  Tan Le

  Alzheimer's, Data, One Day

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• Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

  Eva Vertes

  Cancer, Important, Prevention

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• Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Smart, Average, Wealth

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• Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.

  Donald Shoup

  Long, Giving, Challenges

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• The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in the areas of performance support, particularly, but also in areas such as expert location, crowdsourcing-based problem solving and others.

  Charles Jennings

  Technology, Deployment, Support

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• As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simply
  did not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortion
  providers were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never have
  to think about those who sought to end their pregnancies through
  illegal or dangerous means.

  Stephen Singular

  Pregnancy, Mean, Thinking

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• It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

  William H. Stewart

  War, Cancer, Book

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• GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Gps, Doctors, Dying

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.50, Bradt Travel Guides

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• No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

  Henry Adams

  Teaching, Men, Cost

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Night, Men

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• We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, People

  "Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers’, Soldiers’ And Peasants’ Deputies[". Pravda Nos. 9, 10 and 15, January 26-27 and February 02, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 26, pp. 459-461, www.marxists.org.

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• History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Essence, Political

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• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  "Bread For the Journey". Book by Henri J. M. Nouwen, 1996.

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  Yehuda Berg

  Ego Problem, Self, People

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• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  Yehuda Berg

  Heartless, Supportive, Sound

  "Certainty: A Principle of Kabbalah" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean any_thing to some people, and I just don't get that! After all, if you just read the Bible plainly, it tells you everything. From Creation, to the Flood, to Jesus. I can't see how you can come to the conclusion, there is no God.

  Betty Cuthbert

  Bible, Jesus, Believe

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• One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

  Billy Childish

  Lying, Inability, Has Beens

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• If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

  Majora Carter

  Solutions, Ifs

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• The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

  John Garamendi

  Years, Use, Affection

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• The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

  Eric Roth

  Wish, Growing, End Of Life

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• Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pain, Lying, Compassion

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• We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

  Christiane Collange

  Simple, Tree, Joy

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• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Years, Civilization, Progress

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