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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Edward de Bono

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
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
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
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
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
Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Better Goodness Human Resource Thinking Ultimate
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

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