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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'."
"Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through."
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
"If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem."
"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
"One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring."
"Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them"
"There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now."
"We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem."
"Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly."
"Order is the key to all problems."
"Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems."
"A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems."
"Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them."
"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem."
"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
"If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem."
"If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it."
"Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly."
"The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is."
