It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON
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G. K. Chesterton128 quotes · See all“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.”
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