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Abraham Lincoln1 quote
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 · 1862Abraham Maslow1 quote
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham Maslow · 1966Anton Chekhov1 quote
If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable. — Anton Chekhov · 1904Arthur Conan Doyle1 quote
It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Donald Rumsfeld1 quote
Simply because a problem can be shown to exist, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution. — Donald Rumsfeld · 2001Gore Vidal1 quote
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. — Gore Vidal · 1956H.L. Mencken1 quote
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. — H.L. Mencken · 1917Homer Simpson1 quote
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. — Homer Simpson · 1997Karl Marx1 quote
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 · 1859William Shakespeare1 quote
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven. — William Shakespeare · 1616