#solved

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#been #carried #common #common sense #courage

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#courtesy #government #handled #indispensable #most

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#be happy #better #find #future #happy

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#another #conform #copying #defying #how

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#complex #country #desire #dialogue #even

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#just #makers #money #more #out

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#comforting #fact #got #high #high places

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advice #already #ask #most #others