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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."

"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."

"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."
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"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."

"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."

"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."

"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."

"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."

"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."
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