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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community."

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"When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live."

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Catherine Wilson Philosopher
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"Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise."

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
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"Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me."

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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist
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"The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away."

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Chris Murray Musician
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"Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early."

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Christian Smith Sociologist
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"Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-"

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Connie Willis Author
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"No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering."

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Cornel West Philosopher
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"The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states."

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