Interesting quote, George Washington

I am quite fascinated by the following quote from George Washington:

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends,
 they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent 
engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be 
enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves 
the reins of government, destroying afterwards .the very engines which 
have lifted them to unjust dominion.".."

which you can see more at :  Mount Vernon

Somebody, I am sure, has wisely told me : " don't destroy your engine ".

Clearly, Mr. Washington was expressing a good deal of concern in this statement above .

And so, Problems & Solutions

First we can talk about how problems and solutions fit
so nicely together, and frankly admit, that there are
not always solutions for problems. 

But as a pervasive human experience,  problems are what
we do most of.  ( mostly ) ..... Start with examples:

I lost my keys.   This seems to happen quite often.
A lot.  Unless you have no keys in which case it is
a rare occurrence.  Now the key syndrome will occur
most often in two places, in the home and outside
the home, in which case the resulting action will often
be different.

And this goes on all the time.  Everyday we struggle with
on a big scale with almost a myriad of problems, and yet
we are generally able to make it through the day.

We probably never stop to add up these miraculous
accomplishments but nevertheless they go on all the
time.

Now,  there are really two kinds of solutions.  There
is the immediate solution to the problem at hand,
example " where are my keys ", second kind is
the one preferred by mathematicians, which is you
solve it once and from then on it's always the same.

Generally, I would say, and it's only an opinion but,

>  I honestly think there are more of the former
than of the latter,  but it doesn't always hurt to
strive for solutions that work in a variety of situations.