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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

Edward de Bono

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
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
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
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
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
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
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
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
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
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
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Company Competition Death Focus Thrive Ultimate
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
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
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking

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