Obstacles Quotes (1165 Quotes)




    President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.


    I believe that we are better equipped than we were 10 or 20 years ago to cope with the difficulties we face in the world economy, and the reason we are better equipped in Britain, in the (European) area and in America is that people did take time in the last few years to put us on a better footing.


    The traditional mathematics professor of the popular legend is absentminded. He usually appears in public with a lost umbrella in each hand. He prefers to face the blackboard and to turn his back to the class. He writes a, he says b, he means c but it should be d. Some of his sayings are handed down from generation to generation. 'In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a solution occurs to you.' 'This principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.' 'Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.' 'My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.' 'What is the difference between method and device A method is a device which you used twice.'

    It is wonderful to see such overwhelming support for the men, women and children of southern Africa daily contending with unimaginable hardships, ... The United States is our strongest ally in the war on hunger.

    If the Palestinian leadership is prepared to confront the challenge of setting up a Palestinian state and solving the hardships of its people, it must understand that a condition for that is ending the conflict with Israel.


    I think someone who takes the presidency must not take it to learn. (There is) a crisis of leadership and it needs someone who understands already the depth of human suffering and the difficulties we are confronted with. There's no time for learning.



    They must have recognized the difficulty of growing internationally without a partner, and that having an international presence outside of North America was a lot more than they had acknowledged


    The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.



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