"The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them."
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"The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000."
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"All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues."
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"The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes."
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"It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad."
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"Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems."
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"Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem."
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"Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution."
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"One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans."
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"Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem."
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"Only if enough ordinary Americans speak up and demand better from both their employers and their government is the system going to get fixed. But first of all, we have to understand how serious the problem is."
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"The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization."
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"I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him."
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"Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems."
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"There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done."
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"Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster."
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"The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib"
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"Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally, finally, we've found the platform that will allow us all to lead a democratic, global existence, where all problems will be solved. And the idea that the old platform becomes obsolete, "this kills that," and so on, also often accompanies the advent of a new technology. The digital platform is no exception."
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"The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations."
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"I feel the problems I have are meant to purify me."
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