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“The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.”

“For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.”

Ifs Looks Reason Problem Would Be Able Moving Causes Tree Majors Roots Overcoming Tendencies Symptoms Root Cause

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.”

Way Problem Life Is Roots Financial Dig Deep Take Control Financial Success

Author:Suze Orman

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Want Has Beens Problem Desire Girl Roots Unjustified

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves .”

Men Needs Feels Made Reason Problem Certain Hair Roots Legs Makeup Arrogant Heels Steel High Heels Arches Bras Stylist Shaving Picky Hair Stylist

Book:Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas

Source: Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas

“love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.”

People Problem Causes Love Is Roots Attachment Living Things Unnatural Root Cause Personal Problems

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.”

Problem Lying Social Responsibility Economic Roots Difficulty Honestly Resolve Inability True Nature Scapegoat Grappling Abnegation

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.”

Thinking Problem Rooms Morning Roots Surface I Realized Our Family Fixed Pet Elephants Elephant In The Room Family Pets

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?”

Ifs Facts Problem Stuff Boys Worry Subjects Roots Asking Work Out Debate Sexism Centre

Author:Caitlin Moran

“When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.”

“Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.”

Life Problem Pain Roots Heal Going Away Happy Life Life And Love Dig Deep

Author:Leon Brown

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.”

“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Kind Ideas Ends Problem Song Situation Concepts Roots Opposites Caring Songwriting Angle Not Caring

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.”

World Problem Voice Heard Roots

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.”