"I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else."
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"The answers are always inside the problem, not outside."
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"When you quickly get into motion, a problem becomes an opportunity for growth."
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"I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life."
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"No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts."
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"Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems."
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"By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness."
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"The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously."
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"The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain."
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"Problems are evolutionary drivers."
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"The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion"
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"Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better."
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"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet."
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"I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway."
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"When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one."
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"The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring."
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"The problem with common sense is, it isn't."
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"Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground."
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"Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way."
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"Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is."
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