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SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Solving problems✕clear

Essay · Newspaper

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

1917

★ 1.9

Play

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

Anton Chekhov

1904

★ 1.9

Political literature · Economic literature

Mankind always sets itself only such problems as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, it will always be found that the task itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

Karl Marx

1859

★ 2.0

Simply because a problem can be shown to exist, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

Donald Rumsfeld

2001

★ 2.7

Speech · Political speech

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Annual Message to Congress · 1862

★ 2.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 3.6

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-Headed League · 1891

★ 3.9

Essay

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

1956

★ 5.2

Scientific literature · Psychological literature

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science · 1966

★ 5.2

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Homer Simpson

The Simpsons · 1997

★ 7.3

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