Reported speech at Kim Il Sung University in December 1996, as quoted in Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il (2012) by John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn. Domestic collections of Kim's works do not confirm the speech or the wording, but an April 1996 speech to the Central Committee began with similar observations, and a "state of anarchy" arising from privatization in former socialist countries was a theme in earlier works.
1990s
“A country cannot solely rely on the government and opposition parties to solve all of the problems.”
Jiang Yi-huah (2017) cited in " Former premier wants to help youth go global http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2017/01/17/489623/Former-premier.htm" on The China Post, 17 January 2017
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“If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first a simpler related problem.”
Mathematical Methods in Science (1977), p.164
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“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
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“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
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“Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.”
Ibid., p. 282
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Como nunca podemos conhecer todos os elementos de uma questão, nunca a podemos resolver.
“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
Variant: Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Karma yoga
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 23 September 1983.