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• It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.

  Christopher Alexander

  Circles, Pieces, Common Experience

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• Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Looks, Violence, Carthage

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• Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

  Leo Rosten

  Games, Play, Machines

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

  Keith Waterhouse

  Looks, Problem, Politician

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• If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Past, May

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• History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.

  Janet Macunovich

  Weather, Gardening, Mystery

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Ignorance, Thinking, Engineering

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• As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

  John Stossel

  Taken, Ignorance, Government

  "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.

  Gregory Bateson

  Deep Understanding, Theory Of Evolution, Long

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.343, University of Chicago Press

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• The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Problem, States, Threat

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• We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

  James Cook

  Problem, Welfare, Social

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• Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophical, Angel, Mind

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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• From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.

  Robert Prechter

  Government, Pyramids, Political

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• Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Creating, Problem

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• Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Obamacare, People

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• Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Littles, Normal

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• What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.

  Neeme Jarvi

  Careers, Scotland, Community

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• Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

  Aimee Mann

  Way, Dignity, Problem

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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• We need to know the facts, in order to tell the politicians, "Excuse me, I don't want you to use my money on building a wall that is not going to solve any problems. We have to go this direction instead."

  Demian Bichir

  Wall, Order, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.

  Atul Gawande

  Struggle, Skills, Effort

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• I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Energy, Fuel

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• Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.

  Dale Carnegie

  Focus, Together, Next

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• The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Soul, Poet

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• It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

  Tony Fadell

  Problem, Easy, Hard

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• Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Worry, Energy, Waste

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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