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• [T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Country, Believe, Men

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Pleasure, Clear

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's third public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24, 1967.

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• Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Psychological, Resolve

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Ojai, California, April 1, 1980.

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• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Philosophy, Past, Important

  Liberal leadership convention, 1968.

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• What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Audacity, Life Is

  "The The Ignatian Tradition". Book by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, 2009.

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• How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.

  Marvin Minsky

  Book, Intelligent, Thinking

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• If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pyramids, Feet, Political

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4484, e-artnow

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• Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Russia, Tomatoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Alcohol, Causes, Drink

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

  Edwin Moses

  Children, Teenage, Pregnancy

  "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.

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• Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

  Dick Cheney

  Maximum Number, Numbers, People

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• Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.

  Courteney Cox

  Thinking, Want, Ends

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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• The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

  Steven Shainberg

  Stories, Opinion, Love Story

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• Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Jobs, Needs, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.

  David Hasselhoff

  Fun, Mistake, People

  Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.

  David Gelernter

  Cutting, Exercise, Engineering

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

  Paul Davies

  Light, Years, Civilization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.

  Paul Davies

  Civilization, Long, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Agriculture, Expenses

  "The Washington Post - The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". votesmart.org. October 12, 2007.

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• You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

  Ron Paul

  Healthy, Sound, Serious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn't work. That was pretty much it. I don't know why. I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, People, Acting

  "Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd WANDERLUST Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

  Roseanne Barr

  Country, America, Adults

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

  Tony Blair

  Government, People, Size

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• I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Details, Too Much, Computer

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• It's good for my fans to be able to connect with me as a person because I am a very normal 15-, 16-year-old girl. I still get in trouble. I still have boy problems and friend problems so it's just very good for my fans to see that.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Girl, Boys, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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