Problem Quotes
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It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
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We do have, I think, a right to say that we've got to be able to deal Mr A, or Mr B, or Mr C. We can't deal with Mr Nobody. And that's the problem, OK?
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
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You're more interested in a political message than you are in solving the problem.
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Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!
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In retrospect... it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.
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There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
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The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution.
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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.
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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
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The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
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What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed
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All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.
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It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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The discovery of penicillin was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
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Not a word has come out of the White House about maybe there being a structural problem in the insurance industry.
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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
