A Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Democracy Finding Problems Solutions

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Reinhold Niebuhr
American - Theologian
June 21, 1892 - June 1, 1971

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Will Eisner

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Ruth Asawa

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Brian Tracy

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.

J. P. Guilford

No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

James G. March

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Thomas Sowell

We should all be about the business of finding, discussing and furthering solutions to our problems. But none of that can be done without at first speaking honestly about the problems we confront, with whoever in our ranks will listen and respond.

Michael Eric Dyson

The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.

Marvin Minsky

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

Henry Rollins

Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

Denise Levertov

We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.

Dale Jamieson

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

John Gray

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood