"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."
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"A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems."
"Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."
"Intelligence is the ability to solve problems"
"To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it."
"We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them."
"Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities."
"The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings."
"To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous."
"The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve."
"The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence."
"The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract."
"When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve."
"It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it."
"Manager solves problems, leader prevents them."
"You can't solve problems with the same thinking that caused them."
"She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing."
"My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them."
"No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems."
"If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it"
"Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything"