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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."

"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."

"We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any."

"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."

"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."

"These are national problems that require national solutions."
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"Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger."


"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."


"The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."


"Do not let me hearOf the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God."


"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."


"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."


"For I have known them all already, known them all-Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."


"If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence."


"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
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