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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to be solved, government is the agency to step in and solve it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Agency, Government, Arbitrary

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

  James Cook

  Government, People, Want

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• Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: Despite the obstacles created by governments, voluntary networks of private individuals - through voluntary exchange - solve all sorts of challenges.

  John Stossel

  Government, Challenges, Humanity

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• Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Hands, Brain, Phases

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.82, Penguin

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• Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

  Charlie Munger

  Buying, Tough, Great Business

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wrigley at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Wise, Problem, Concrete

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.78, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

  Grace Kelly

  Problem, Can Not

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• Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

  John Ralston Saul

  Creativity, Hands, Management

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?

  Eberhard Arnold

  Light, Years, Long

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• In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Reality, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Teaching, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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• Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

  Carl Sagan

  Writing, Mathematical Equations, Long

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• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Insanity, Different, Levels

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• Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

  Barry Commoner

  Practice, Problem, Solutions

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• We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hatred, Trying, Encounters

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• If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Real, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.359, Jaico Publishing House

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• One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.

  Terence McKenna

  Opportunity, Appreciate, Zips

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• It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Impossible, Problem, Significant

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• It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Alive, Problem

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Infinite Intelligence, Way, Planning

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2012). “The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shinn”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Doe, Want

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• If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Problem, Bigger, Ifs

  "What Did You Learn From the Cliff Debate, Dorothy?" by Jared Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 02, 2013.

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• It's only after you get down into the technical weeds - and they are admittedly rather weedy - that it becomes clear that this is much harder than it seems and not something we're going to be able to solve.

  Matt Blaze

  Weed, Able, Clear

  Source: www.politico.com

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• After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Feet, Years

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1989.

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