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"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
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"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."

"We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems."

"My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions."

"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."

"Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States."

"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."

"And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility."

"These are national problems that require national solutions."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."


"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."


"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."


"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."


"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."


"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."
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