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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Edward de Bono

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Creative Empowerment Learning People Production Profit Skills Thinking
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

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