It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification -- the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.
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I had always worked with the temperamental conviction that at bottom there are no insoluble problems, and experience justified me in so far as I have often seen patients simply outgrow a problem that had destroyed others. This 'outgrowing,' as I formerly called it, proved on further investigation to be a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient's horizon, and through this broadening of his outlook the insoluble problem lost its urgency.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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