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Problems
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“Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous — it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.”
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“I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.”
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“ ... there is hardly a problem, no matter how complicated it is, that when looked at in the right way doesn't become still more complicated.”
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“... there is no problem that doesn't have within it the seeds for its solution.”
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“Problems, unfortunately, can be addicting. Like it or not, we take a certain amount of pride in the very problems that distress us.”
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“Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.”
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“A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.”
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“Problems are messages.”
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“Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.”
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“... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.”
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“... a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.”
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“The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.”
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“When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.”
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“If you're sure you know the solution, you are part of the problem.”
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“Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anyone.”
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“Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves.”
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“Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.”
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“Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.”
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“Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancelled others.”
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“There is no problem that is not actually a gift.”