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“When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."”

“If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.”

Ifs Problem Creative Serious Solutions Angel

Author:Matt Damon

“In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.”

Thinking World Problem Faces Serious Population Explosions Population Explosion

Author:Charlton Heston

“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.”

People Want Should Problem Bigs Wanted Poor Subjects Serious Waste Eating Thinker Consumption Documentaries Poor People Serious Subjects

Author:Agnes Varda

“Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.”

People Humans Problem Light Action Realizing Sleep Results Quality Growing Air Serious Bird Patterns Damage Mercury Vapor Air Quality

Author:Will Young

“I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.”

Problem Serious Masturbation

Author:John Mayer

“Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.”

Problem Talking Serious

Author:Nigel Short

“If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.”

Ifs Problem Body Causes Serious Drink Your Body Addict Depressants

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.”

World Problem Challenges Serious Capable Meetings Wide Range Agency Inherent Units Salvage

Author:Norman Cousins

“A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.”

Art Problem Games Serious Art Is

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.”

People Should Problem Young Fun Serious Citizens Drug Should Have Abuse Tolerance Having Fun Vietnam Penalties Strict Drug Abuse

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.”

Problem Issues Serious Crisis Institutions International Legitimacy

Author:Mo Ibrahim

“In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?”

Ifs Feels Should Children Problem Home Happens Parent Support Serious Grandparent Assistance Excluded

Author:Pope Francis

“If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.”

Ifs Mean Problem Culture Language Education Youth Serious Civilization Educational Ancestor

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.”

Problem Culture Social Religious Education Moral Serious Drug Racism Addiction Gaps Drug Addiction Drug Addict Social Problems Moral Education

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.”

People Mean Important Problem Hands Games Social Laughing Trouble Serious Jokes Endure Intense Norm Grievance

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.”

Humans Problem Causes Serious Evolution Solutions Rapids Human Intelligence

Book:Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.”

Problem Cities Serious Infrastructure Philadelphia Rebuilding American Cities Kabul

Author:Mick Cornett

“Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.”

Ifs Ideas Self Matter Whole Problem Wonder Serious Flight Disgusting Repression Health Problems

Author:Colin McGinn

“The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.”

Problem Reading Serious Sacred Nevertheless

Book:Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays

Source: Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays

“I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.”

Thinking Needs Mind Problem Actors Sex Serious Symbols Meals Sex Symbol Good Meals

Author:Clive Owen

“If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.”

Ifs Problem Quality Serious Quality Control

Author:George Carlin

“Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.”

Problem Serious Treats Waking

Book:Hidden mind of freedom

Source: Hidden mind of freedom

“I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.”

Ifs Way Want Problem Actors Felt Emotional Serious Perception Dumb Judged Emotional Problems

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.”

Needs Helping Problem Suffering Serious Racism Killing Medical Racist Psychiatric Medical Problems

Author:Ishmael Reed

“There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.”

Looks Country Problem Community Wealth Race Example Serious Happenings African American Zero Almost Zero

Author:Noam Chomsky

“We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.”

Problem Black Gone Happened Serious Racism Males Rate African American Roof No Problem Reconstruction Incarceration Black Lives Black Males

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.”

People Ifs Want May Persons States Problem Able America United Accepting United States Issues Serious Percent Concerned Good People Killers Refugee Isis Syrian Refugees

Author:Marco Rubio

“I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.”

Problem Serious Doctors I Realized Medication

Author:Donna Summer

“In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.”

People Persons Enough Whole Problem Happens Results Secret Company Share Building Serious Died Traditional Software Witchcraft Guarded Guarding

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.”

Problem Serious Investment No Money

Book:Comedy Writing Secrets

Source: Comedy Writing Secrets

“Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.”

“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.”

Thinking Problem Humor Happens Funny Remember Night Religion Serious Wake Up Pope

Author:Pope John XXIII

“I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.”

Thinking Problem Worry Military Serious China Resolve Putin Ukraine Crimea

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.”

People Knows Important Problem Left Simple Issues Policy Serious Solutions Tweet Populism Simple Solutions

Author:Tony Blair

“When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?”

World War Problem Winning Serious Cold Nuclear Cold War Escaping Places In The World Armageddon Encores

Author:Graham T. Allison

“I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.”

People Thinking Problem Bigs Together Faces Left Responsibility Serious Solutions Work Out Radical Working Together Insurgent Populism Big Responsibility

Author:Tony Blair

“When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.”

Should Problem Humanity Culture Serious Reasonable Not Happy

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“It plays right into the hands of ISIS. And that's why Americans need to know that Donald Trump's words are being used in recruitment videos that ISIS is putting out. I think that is a very serious problem.”

Thinking Knows Needs Play Problem Hands Used Serious Trump Video Isis Recruitment

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.”

Problem Serious Climate Climate Change Humankind

Author:Bill Nye

“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.”

“There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.”

People Wells May Important Use Problem Memories Sleep Views Attention Serious Demand Consequence Weight Increase Cancer Sexy Point Of View Disorder Public Health Cellphone

Author:Devra Davis

“Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.”

Ifs Book Problem Fiction Serious Pages Providing Non Fiction

Author:James W. Loewen

“I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.”

Thinking Doe Problem Fighting Energy Policy Serious Climate Climate Change Comprehensive Energy Policy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.”

Humans Self Problem Given Powerful Technology Possibility Serious Development Population Extinction Density Human Population

Author:Dale Jamieson

“I think we can compete with high-wage countries, and I believe we should. New jobs and clean energy, not only to fight climate change, which is a serious problem, but to create new opportunities and new businesses.”

Thinking Should Believe Country Problem Jobs Fighting Opportunity Energy I Believe Serious Clean Climate Climate Change New Job Clean Energy New Opportunity New Business

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with a tyranny and a dictatorship. And when they do business with a dictatorship, a tyranny, they will have problems like this. This, I believe, is the beginning of several problems that there will be over the next few years because we are talking about American companies that now want to get cozy with this regime, and they will find themselves in very serious problems such as those we're seeing at this time with the Carnival Company.”

Want Years Believe Problem Next I Believe Company Talking Cases Seeing Serious Tyranny Regimes Dictatorship Cozy Carnivals This I Believe

Author:Marco Rubio

“I think crisis starts with the government of Puerto Rico. It has to take measures to solve the fiscal problems that it has, which are very serious. It's very basic: it's the same thing that is happening in Washington.”

Thinking Problem Government Serious Happenings Crisis Solve Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Marco Rubio

“We have seen that [Zika virus] has caused, and is causing, a whole series of problems for pregnant women and for their unborn children, and we are seeing that it is transmitted by mosquitos, and mosquitos are a serious matter during the summer in Florida. So we are very worried about those funds not being available. There is $500 million dollars available from the Ebola money that was not used. I think it is going to be used immediately.”

“We have seen how Zika has become a very serious problem in Brazil, in other parts of Latin America, in this hemisphere. During the summer it can arrive very quickly here in south Florida, in the whole state. In a very hot climate in summer, where mosquitos begin to spread very quickly, it's a very serious threat.”

States Whole Problem America Serious Summer Hot Threat South Climate Spread Latin Florida Latin America Brazil Hemisphere South Florida

Author:Marco Rubio

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