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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Edward de Bono

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Information Need Substitute Thinking
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Action Problem Situation Time Way
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve

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