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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

Edward de Bono

You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Imagination Story Time Writing
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Chance Company Insurance Solid Wealth
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World

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