#solutions

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#board #both #contribute #corporations #council

Die Judenfrage,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but once one has defined a people or a nation as such, the search for a resolution can become a yearning for the conclusive. Endlösung: the final solution. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#gertrude-stein #holocaust #irish-question #jewish-question #jews

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#ask #give #government #more #much

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american families #american jobs #best #concern #create

Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#problems #solutions #life

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. ↗

— David Attenborough

#different #different kinds #four #kinds #million

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#assemble #attach #congresses #different #different opinions

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#application #confident #developing #effective #going

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ↗

— Andre Breton

#elsewhere #existence #imaginary #live #living

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #faced #great