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“We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.”

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Author:Judith Butler

“We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.”

“We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems.”

Thinking Believe Problem Bigs Care Together Energy Party Issues Proud Republican Solutions Democrat Solve Critical Practicals Health Care Big Problems Affiliation

Author:Barack Obama

“I think it's interesting that a lot of times people want celebrities to give back in the way that they want them to give back. They want them to give money to the cause they think is important and when that doesn't happen they say, "Oh, they're not doing anything." People think celebrities are going to solve their problems. People think because someone is famous or an athlete or a politician that the solution begins with them. All they're there to do is sell you a product.”

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Author:Rhymefest

“I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.”

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Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

Source: One to one: understanding personal relationships

“These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.”

May Persons Problem Today Able Technology Tomorrow Solutions Patient Folks Solve These Days Disability Better Off Deficit Erase

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

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Book:The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.”

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Author:Hugh Prather

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Problem Spiritual Hours Minutes Solutions Solve Spending Thought Provoking Physicist Problems And Solutions Solved Problems

Author:Albert Einstein

“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”

Source: Evolution of Physics

“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.”

Source: Downsiders

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.”

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Author:Barbara Mertz

“- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have a problem, and I know what I need to do to solve it, all right? I'm working on it. Of course, Harry hadn't said what the solution was. The solution, obviously, was to hurry up and become God.”

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Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.”

Problem Forget Projects Solutions Solve Completing Inspirational Marriage Analysing

Book:The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set

Source: The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].”

Ifs World Mean Problem Science Three Evil Existence Magic Serious Theory Solutions Solve Ran Charm Devices Fascinated Fourth Symmetry Charmed Avert Quarks

Author:Sheldon Lee Glashow

“When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.”

“Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.”

Problem Science Ability Pleasure Brain Evolution Skills Solutions Sticks Solve Holes Cows Problem Solving Puzzles Chimpanzees

Author:Martin Gardner

“We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.”

Men Problem Science Humanity Sides Ten Solutions Accounts Solve Artifice Science Religion Always Wrong

Book:Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then, is often what we should look for when we ask for help-not a miracle to solve our problem for us, but a miracle inside, to help us come to the solution ourselves, with the Lord's help and the Lord's power.”

People Should Looks Helping Problem Asks Lord Solutions Miracle Adversity Solve Great Things Assurance Instill Hope And Faith

Author:Gene R. Cook

“The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time humanity began to think it has occupied itself with the problem of its origin and its future which undoubtedly is the problem of life. The inability of science to solve it is absolute. This would be truly frightening were it not for faith.”

Thinking Men Problem Would Be Science Life Is Faith Humanity Doubt Mystery Solutions Absolutes Solve No Doubt Frightening Inability Persistent Mystery Of Life

Author:Guglielmo Marconi

“If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.”

“If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.”

“The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.”

Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

“Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?”

Ifs Men Want Science Desire Universe Religious Leader Solutions Ideals Solve Riddle Religious Leaders

Book:Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects

Source: Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects

“Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.”

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Author:George Polya

“The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this means, and by all other means, he should endeavor to make his first important discovery: he should discover his likes and dislikes, his taste, his own line.”

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Author:George Polya

“The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.”

Real Problem Form Science Universe Saws Seeing Achievement Solutions Discovery Essence Unions Solve Discourse Unlikely Analogies

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.”

Science Force Nature Results Known Mystery Events Solutions Solve Mysterious Forces Of Nature

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.”

“To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.”

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Author:George Porter

“In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

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Author:Al Gore