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“If there was no solution, well then now there was no problem, either.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Once you’ve ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“The solution of logical problems must be simple for they set the standard of simplicity.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain—why he did not instantly...” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a...” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Technology, which, linked to business interests, is presented as the only way of solving these problems, in fact proves incapable of seeing the mysterious network of relations between things and so sometimes solves one problem only to create others.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'

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