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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."
"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."
"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
"My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions."
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"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."
"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."
"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
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