Problematic Quotes
83 quotes by 76 authors
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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention?…
— Eckhart Tolle
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She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when…
— Dave Eggers
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
— Terry Pratchett
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What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are…
— Terry Pratchett
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the…
— George Eliot
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
— Alain de Botton
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
— Chinua Achebe
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
— Ian Hacking
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The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went…
— Noam Chomsky
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The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of a free society…
— Ben Shapiro
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I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A…
— Elaine Pagels
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I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
— Ori Gersht
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
— Pat Brown
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits…
— Lars Feld
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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each…
— Ali Smith
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If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere…
— Blake Mycoskie
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When a girl changes her mood from smile to frown,,from jolly to silence, there are only three reasons you could think of why she is…
— No FaceToShow
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I grew up in a household where there was such anger and resentment towards anyone who had any money, that I never really had any…
— Ethan Hawke
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If life is an evolving process, then consistent change is the only resolving mechanism to problematic cases.~Anuj Somany
— Anuj Somany
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