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“I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination”
― Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
― Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

“...You want to know whether the problems that you teenagers feel—will they follow you over the rest of your lives? Will your hearts always be aching? Is that what you are asking me?”
Goodman shifted in discomfort. “Something like that,” he said.
“Yes,” said the counselor in a suddenly plangent voice. “Always they will be aching. I wish I could tell you something else, but I wouldn’t be telling the truth. My wise and gentle friends, this is the way it will be from now on.”
No one could say anything. “We are so, so fucked,” Jules finally said...”
― The Interestings
Goodman shifted in discomfort. “Something like that,” he said.
“Yes,” said the counselor in a suddenly plangent voice. “Always they will be aching. I wish I could tell you something else, but I wouldn’t be telling the truth. My wise and gentle friends, this is the way it will be from now on.”
No one could say anything. “We are so, so fucked,” Jules finally said...”
― The Interestings

“Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.”
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.”
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“Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!”
― Daily Drive 365
― Daily Drive 365

“It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.”
― Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
― Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

“Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.”
― Champagne for One
― Champagne for One

“We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.”
― Waldmeer
― Waldmeer

“Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above the world below. It seemed entirely possible that it was all just a matter of setting and location, and Peter wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.”
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“I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.”
― Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
― Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
“We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.”
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“People that complains all the time about problems are the one's that need to fix there problems.”
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“His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“How I wished all my problems were just a piece of cake. Eat it entirely and then it's all gone.”
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“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist

“I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.”
― Hiding Out
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.”
― Hiding Out

“Was it that she understood that we resented having others think that we were all entertainers and natural singers? But now after the mutual laughter something disturbed me: Shouldn't there be some way for us to be asked to sing? Shouldn't the short man have the right to make a mistake without his motives being considered consciously or unconsciously malicious? After all, he was singing, or trying to. What if I asked him to sing?”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
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