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At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself.

—Baldwin,James Arthur

Observation is always selective. It needs a chosen object, a definite task, an interest, a point of view, a problem.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

He isjoyful with swift movement when a mouse sticks in his sharp paw. I too am joyful when I understand a dearly loved difficult problem.

—Anonymous

Hang a lantern on your problem.

—Matthews, ChristopherJ

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

—Anderson, Poul William

When somebody tells you it is not a money problem, they're talking about somebody else's money.

—Clinton, Bill (William)

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

—Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

—Feynman, Richard P(hillips)

There is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the worldöincluding ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than that of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

Il n'y a qu'un proble'  me philosophique vraiment se¤  rieux: c'est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d'e"  tre ve¤  cue, c'est re¤  pondre a'   la question fondamentale de la philosophie. Thereisbutonetrulyseriousphilosophical problem, and that is suicide.Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

—Camus, Albert

Peut-on e"  tre un saint sans Dieu: C'est le seul proble'  me concret que je connaisse aujourd'hui. Can one become a saint without God? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

—Camus, Albert

Ein philosophisches Problem hat die Form: 'Ich kenne mich nicht aus'. A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about'.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann

Part of the problem for the invisible manwas that he was invisibletohimself,that hedidn'tgrasphisowncomplexity.

—Ellison, RalphWaldo

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

—Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)

The problem is not style but quality, not aesthetics but ethics.

—Rogers, Richard George Rogers, Baron

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Ihold a beast, anangel and a madmanwithinme, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self expression.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States.Eachsuburbanwifestruggledwith it alone. Asshe made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at nightöshe was afraid to ask even of herself the silent questionö'Is this all?'

—Friedan, Betty (Elizabeth) Naomi ne¤  e  Goldstein

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

In Bezug auf das sudetendeutsche Problem meine Geduld jetzt zu Ende ist! With regard tothe problem of the Sudeten Germans, my patience is now at an end!

—Hitler, Adolf

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

—Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

On the contrary, the mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations. The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.

—Constantinus

There isno such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.You seek problems because you need their gifts.

—Bach, Richard

Given that the deepest problem with the US economy is slow productivity growth, it is difficult to argue for tax increasesthat might reduceincentives† Thereseemsto Kuhn be a public consensus that Donald Trump is the price of progress.

—Krugman, Paul R

I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

—Shipton, Eric Earle

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

—Small, AlbionW

Better a'e gowden lyric Than a social problem solved.

—Grieve

My solution to the problem would be to tell them that they've got to draw in their horns, or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age.

—LeMay, Curtis Emerson

   It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

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

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

You're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem.

—Cleaver, Eldridge