"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
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"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
"The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war."
"Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you."
"From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940."
"I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds."
"For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations."
"The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream."
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."
"The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection."
"Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable."
"Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before."
"Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities."
"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."
"In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution."
"Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes."
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
"I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things."
"In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem."