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“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.”

Men Use Problem School Accepting College High School Sat Grades

Author:John Katzman

“I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.”

Way Has Beens Problem Class Helpful Tangible Woodworking

Author:Luke Kirby

“They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.”

Problem Community Attention Police Presses Committees Congressional Committees

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.”

People Should Problem Used Pay Taxes Income Like Me Dividends

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

“If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Problem Would Be Moving Actors Right Now Shoes Crap Chores

Author:Tarsem Singh

“I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.”

Men Problem He Man Communicate Not Sure

Author:Jess Weixler

“Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.”

I Can Matter Problem Pressure Cracks Ceo

Author:Yishan Wong

“I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.”

Ifs World Problem Prove Prove Myself

Author:Tionne Watkins

“I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.”

Problem Kids Lying Attitude Attitude Problem

Author:Tionne Watkins

“Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.”

Problem Language Understanding Deals Infinite Insight Psychological Observation Variety Collections Frozen Spontaneity Candor Repetitive Jargon Idiom Formality Lexicon

Author:Richard Rosen

“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Problem Action Political Decision Taken Politician Solutions Tragedy Harm Alternatives Consistent Uncompromising Political Action

Book:Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays

Source: Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays

“It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.”

Ifs Problem Earth Hours Effects Observation Breathing Ecology Conservation Morbid Greenhouses

Author:Jerry Adler

“Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.”

People Problem Church Religious Greater Development Tradition Catholic Remarkable Openness Persuasion Desirable Catholic Church Religious Traditions

Author:Francis Arinze

“Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Today Found Common Drug Tests Sticks After Death Arsenic

Author:Michael Baden

“I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.”

Ifs Has Beens Problem Involved Authority Come Up Locals Get Involved

Author:Michael Baden

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

Problem Government Liberty Solutions Conservative Libertarian Libertarianism Limited Government Solution To A Problem Urban Planning Bad Government

Book:An Economist's Protest

Source: An Economist's Protest

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

People Want Philosophy Problem Government Political Protect Economics Consumers Urgent

Author:Milton Friedman

“The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.”

Kind Philosophy Problem Political Social Liberty Capitalism Economics Organization Greed Harm Libertarian Arrangements Free Market Capitalism Social Organization

Book:Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

“Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.”

People Humans Problem Dark Race Areas Terror Human Race

Author:Bill Forsyth

“I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.”

Thinking Problem Protection Copies Compact Discs

Author:Edward Felten

“The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.”

Want Problem Casts Wide

Author:Edward Felten

“One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.”

World Problem Today Able Poor Scientist World Today Flanders

Author:Michael Flanders

“The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.”

Country Problem Today Cases Serious Aging Population Japan Pace Other Countries Rapids Demographics Developed Country

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.”

Way Years I Can Problem Body Used Acting Careers Appreciate Weight Chosen Mature No Problem

Author:Dana Hill

“I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.”

People Problem Fun Seeing Having Fun Too Cool

Author:Lukas Haas

“My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.”

Problem Used Cutting Lows Used To Be Jeans Eighty Flattering

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.”

People Way Problem Religious Chosen Testament Old Testament Fundamentalist Charter

Author:Bruce Kent

“The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.”

Matter Problem President Immigration Talk To Me

Author:Erich Leinsdorf

“My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.”

Problem Solutions Problem Solving Effectiveness

Author:George Nethercutt

“I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.”

I Can Real Problem Differences Schizophrenic Real Me

Author:Nick Rhodes

“My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.”

Ifs Sometimes Problem Actors Differences Directors Photographer Height Massive Tall Not Happy

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.”

People Thinking Way Looks Problem Understanding Growth Gone Solutions Fuel Expensive Toxic Benign Inexpensive

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.”

Two Problem Film Rooms Building Cameras No Problem

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it.”

Problem Majors Major Problems

Author:Gedde Watanabe

“Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.”

Problem Causes Alcohol

Author:Jayson Williams

“In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.”

Real Problem Views Real Problems

Author:Hugh Masekela

“The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.”

Hard Facts Stories Problem Jobs Comedy Horror Standards Despite Labels Genre Dirty Tone No Problem Woven Whimsical Funny Story Dirty Jobs

Author:Christopher Moore

“Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised”

Problem Race Democracy Raised Intelligence Democracies Have

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?”

Problem Causes Fear Havens Cunning

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.”

States Problem Difficult Achieve Crime Creation Cost Boundaries Welfare Unemployment Promoting

Author:William J. Brennan

“For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.”

Men Soul Problem Reality Wish Wise Magic Conform Cardinals Applied Science

Book:Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?”

Problem Care Steps Team Members Appropriate Teamwork Team Building Appropriate Time

Author:Laszlo Bock

“It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.”

Trying Ideas Ends Feelings Problem Together Goal Responsibility Steps Pieces Humility Embrace Solve Teamwork Ownership Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Laszlo Bock

“Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.”

Problem Wisdom Relationship Communication Development Foundation Personal Development

Author:Peter Shepherd

“If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”

Ifs Problem Worry Stress Buddhist Enlightened Stressful Life Stress Buddhist Life Stress And Worry Stress And Life No Stress Stressful Day

Author:Shantideva

“There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.”

Way Life Needs May Problem Light Turns Energy Fun Darkness Battle Empty Available Spending Happy Life Problem Solving Fulfilling Live Your Life Hearted Turn-on Effortless

Author:Andreas Moritz

“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.”

War Problem Law Courses Force Chance Enemy Plans Military Fit Circumstances Mets Survival Overcoming Accounts Practicals Alternatives Opposing Adaptability Obstruction

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.”

Knows Life Littles Problem Universe Answers Existence Roles Essence Ultimate Intelligent Solve Core Significance Compulsion Transient Intelligent Life

Author:Dale Rex Coman

“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”

Life Trying Problem Science Joy Nature Answers Half Sea Sky Flower Hair Mountain Bird Mark Grass Feathers Joy Of Life Petals Mammals Interrogation Solved Problems Sea And Sky

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

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