Solutions Quotes - Page 38

• The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.

  Al Gore

  Climate, World, Demand

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• Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

  Aharon Katzir

  Exercise, Science, Goal

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• Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Nature, Tree, Environmental

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• I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Environmental, Melting

  Transcript of the Vice-Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2008.

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• In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Science, Numbers, Water

  Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

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• Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin

  Phil Harding

  Two Sides, Growth, Population

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• From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.

  Jose Mujica

  Country, Pain, Powerful

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• Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

  Barack Obama

  School, Kids, College

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Believe, Long, Next

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• No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Income, Poverty, Problem

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• Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ignorance, Passion, Wish

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• We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Perfect, Mind

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• When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Unique, Bifurcation, Equilibrium

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• Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, People, Alive

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

  Cynthia McKinney

  Country, Today, Problem

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• Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Thinking, Population Problem, Long

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• If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

  Max Muller

  Sky, Mind, Independence

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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• Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.

  Arron Wood

  Challenges, Problem, Environment

  Arron Wood, Richard Wood (2007). “Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader: Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis”, p.24, Environmental Leadership

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• I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.

  Karl-Henrik Robert

  Inspiring, Integrity, Believe

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• The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Data, Decision

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• The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Attitude, Past

  Umberto Eco (1984). “Postscript to The name of the rose”, Harcourt

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• Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Lying, Hands

  Speech on the steps of the State Capitol Building, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965.

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• I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.... And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans.

  Michael Parenti

  Believe, Dirty, America

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• America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

  Joe Biden

  America, People, Leader

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• We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

  Hiroyuki Watanabe

  Business, Years, Growth

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