"The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly."
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"You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it."
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"Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off."
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"Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things."
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"That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault."
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"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
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"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
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"A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?"
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"Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical."
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"It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle."
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"I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems."
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"Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems."
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"your problem is that wanna better word for world"
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"You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere."
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"The biggest labor problem is tomorrow."
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"It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems."
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"I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution."
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"The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it."
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"That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician."
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"We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them."
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