#problems

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bad #bin #death #good #good thing

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#before #bob #brother #candidate #contributions

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#because #britain #calling #competition #complete

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand. ↗

— Amado Boudou

#deal #hand #long #long term #medium

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit. ↗

— Kevin Nealon

#deal #little #little bit #numb #people

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. ↗

— Rudolf Carnap

#confusion #extraction #ingredient #last #leaves

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#been #bush #enormous #experiencing #guard

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#become #group #had #i #problems

Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure. For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential. ↗

— David W. Jones

#death #disney-world #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#community #contribution #difference #drift #happiness