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• Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.

  Tamora Pierce

  Military, Way, Sticks

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• Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Food, Growth

  María Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Zed Books

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

  Barack Obama

  Block, America, Government

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.

  Robert Fulghum

  Distance, Believe, Mean

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.173, Ivy Books

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• The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Patriotic, White

  Speech at the Church of the Puritans, New York, N.Y., May 1863

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• This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.

  David Sedaris

  Coffee, Thinking, Order

  "The Way We Are" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

  Khalil Gibran

  Trying, Problem, Window

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• He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

  Michelle Obama

  Mind Your Own Business, Asking, World

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• Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

  John Fowles

  Hate, Mean, Piers

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

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• If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Death Note, Loser, Near Death

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• Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

  Melody Beattie

  Helping Others, People, Worry

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.56, Hazelden Publishing

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• He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

  Anna Godbersen

  Running, Pain, Tired

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• The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, People, Imagination

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• Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?

  Rich Burlew

  Sacrifice, Problem, Minions

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• Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Anger, Doe

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• and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

  Charles Bukowski

  Together, Might, Facts

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Affection, Problem

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.373, NYU Press

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• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Curiosity, Taught

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• If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

  Rita Dove

  Skeletons, Essence, World

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• Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Mystery, Problem

  "Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf".

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• Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Soul, Suffering

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

  Carolyn Keene

  Mystery, Close Calls

  Carolyn Keene (1936). “Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm”, p.101, Penguin

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• What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoying things. It doesn't matter what you're talking about - war, work, marriage, democracy, love, it all fails because everybody gives up trying after a while, we can't help ourselves. And don't ask me to solve it because I am the worst. I'd escape tomorrow if I could, from every single thing I've always wanted.

  Jenny Valentine

  Giving Up, War, Fighting

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