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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Edward de Bono

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor Thinking
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
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
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
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
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
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

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