“It's not a problem to put it up, It's a problem to take it down.”
Talking about the posters that appeared everywhere in Lebanon, of Hafez al-Assad, 1993. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/international/middleeast/15hariri.html?_r=0
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Lebanese businessman and politician 1944–2005Related quotes
“The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.”
Charles de Lint (1951) author
As quoted in The Ultimate Guide to Celebrating Kids : K-6th Grade School (2005) by Linda LaTourelle, p. 134
“a problem well put is half solved.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“The Pattern of Inquiry” from Logic: Theory of Inquiry
Logic: Theory of Inquiry (1938)
Variant: It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
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Norm Coleman (1949) American politician
Bush will add more than 20,000 troops to Iraq http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/10/iraq.bush/index.html CNN (January 11, 2007).
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
According to The American Chesterton Society http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/19.htm, this quotation is actually a paraphrase by John F. Kennedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy of a passage from The Thing (1929) in which Chesterton made reference to a fence or gate erected across a road: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." <br class="br">Misattributed
George Klir (1932–2016) American computer scientist
Source: Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic (1995), p. 2-3.