Quotes with problem-solvers

Quotes 261 till 280 of 375.

  • Carroll Quigley The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Milton Friedman The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Kent The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
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  • Tom Wolfe The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The problem with ideology is, if you've got an ideology, you've already got your mind made up. You know all the answers and that makes evidence irrelevant and arguments a waste of time. You tend to govern by assertion and attacks.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • D.B.C. Pierre The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
    Vernon God Little
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Adam Sandler The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • David Lee Roth The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
    David Lee Roth
    American singer (1954 - )
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  • Umberto Eco The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Anna Quindlen The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Arthur Keith The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • B. F. Skinner The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • C. S. Lewis The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anita Hill The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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