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We have also come to realize that no problem ever exists in complete isolation. Every problem interacts with aother problems and is, therefore, part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…Furthermore, solutions to most problems produce other problems…English does not contained a suitable word for ’systems of problems’. Therefore, I have had [...]

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After the Second World War the British coal mining industry introduced tehcnically revolutionary methods of coal cutting. THe industry was re-equpped with expensive machinery. Being now a much more capital-intensive industry its economic performance depended very much upon high utilization of the coal cutters, converyers, and powered supports. In the 1950s Lord Robens, then Chairman [...]

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
attributed to Albert Einstein

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Very few really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justification, explanations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to [...]

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