Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.


René Descartes

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


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I want to solve problems.
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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A problem well stated is a problem half solved
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
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You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.
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A problem acknowledged is half solved.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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I hope you get your problem solved today,
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Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...
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I think; therefore I am.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt...
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along ...
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Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
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And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...
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Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its ra...
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Masked, I advance.
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It cannot be denied that he RENé DESCARTES ...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.
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Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is,...
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Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
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The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be c...
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
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Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.
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