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"When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes."
"The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution."
"To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems."
"The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times."
"My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure."
"The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem."
"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
"We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner."
"One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors."
"Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem."
"State problems should involve state solutions."
"Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution."
"Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is"
"If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems."
"Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge."
"The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow."
"The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do."
"Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it."
"If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons."
"There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone."
