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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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Allow Analysis Description Purpose Science
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Information Need Substitute Thinking
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
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
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit Thinking
Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself

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