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• A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more… — E F Schumacher
• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams
• Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises… — Denis de Rougemont
• Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them,… — Simone Weil
• The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way --… — Theodore Zeldin
• Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
• We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier
• We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems. — Will Eisner
• [P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. — Henry Adams
• There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. — James A. Michener

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