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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Technology, Able, Today

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• Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

  Henry Winkler

  Fun, Acting, Three

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• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Pregnancy, Long, May

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

  George Ayittey

  Leader, Next, Crisis

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• I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Doe, World

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• Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ideas, People, Mind

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• I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Thinking, Government

  "Op-Ed: There's An App For Everything, And That's A Problem". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 4, 2013.

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• Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Ideas, People

  "Is crowd-sourcing the answer to restoring trust in government?". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 29, 2012.

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

  Frida Kahlo

  Thinking, Littles, Able

  Frida Kahlo (2006). “Frida by Frida: Selection of Letters and Texts”, Editorial Rm Rio Panuko

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Philosophy, Religion, Doctrine

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.130, Penguin

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• By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

  Hugh Prather

  Frustration, Littles, Might

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• Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Adversity, Survival

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• another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

  Barack Obama

  Meaningful, Country, Believe

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.2, Canongate Books

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• If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

  e. e. cummings

  Hands, Mountain, Despair

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• I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Morning, Reflection, Track

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• Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Freedom, Passion, Government

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. and Jaime A. Castellano, Ed.D. "Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential", November 15, 2013.

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• We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

  Al Gore

  Community, Action, Conceit

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• Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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• It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Running, Country, Science

  Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”

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• Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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