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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Edward de Bono

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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Charity Hypocrisy Idea Justice Stop Trade
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
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.
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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value

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