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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have. ↗

— Nate Silver

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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

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One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. ↗

— Neil Simon

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The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. ↗

— Julian Lincoln Simon

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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives. ↗

— Paul Simon

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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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