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• It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

  Edwin Land

  Research, Curious, Obvious

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• I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

  Edwin Land

  Believe, Special, Different

  "Generation of Greatness : The Idea of a University in an Age of Science". Edwin Land's Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, groups.csail.mit.edu. May 22, 1957.

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Dresses

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• the things that people are typically afraid of are what I find most exciting and unpredictable, and I guess that's part of the problem is people don't want something unpredictable wasting their time while the cameras are rolling, where to me that's by far the most interesting part.

  David Gordon Green

  Want Something, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Men, Long

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, yahoo.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Boss, Important, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

  Takashi Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Bigs, Spending

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

  David Jason

  Media, Age, Television

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

  Anne Lamott

  Witty, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Apples, Stealing Things

  Source: www.esquire.com

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  In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

  Mike Tyson

  Order, Succeed, Failing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

  Jeb Bush

  People, Decision, Trying

  "Is the left waging a war against college men?". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2015.

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• The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Development, World, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  Michelle Obama

  Struggle, Kids, Childhood

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• There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.

  Rick Warren

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many of the liberal people tend to say, "Well, the solution is government." I couldn't disagree more. The government cannot solve the problem and never will. I believe the solution to these problems is the church and that the church should be responsible for caring for the sick, and assisting the poor, and educating.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Caring, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.

  Tony Robbins

  Dog, Children, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.

  Donald Trump

  World, Weapons, Today

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

  Donald Wuerl

  Way, Serious, Environment

  "Do Catholics have a religious duty to protect the Earth?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 18, 2015.

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• The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

  Tim Burton

  Fun, Waiting Around, People

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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• I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Real, Talking

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2000.

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• I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate, Population, Term

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jane Goodall". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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