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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
Daniel QuinnRead
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
Isaac AsimovRead
How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.
Ajahn BrahmRead
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRead
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.
Sigmund FreudRead
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
Jared DiamondRead
Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.
Tony DungyRead
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
Saul AlinskyRead
I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.
Jon ForemanRead
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
David SarnoffRead
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.
Jacob BronowskiRead
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
Bill NyeRead
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.
Ted HughesRead
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Jacqueline NovogratzRead
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
Bill GatesRead
One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.
Dalai LamaRead
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Letty Cottin PogrebinRead
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Bill WattersonRead
He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.
J. K. RowlingRead

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