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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.

Edward de Bono

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Children Live News People
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
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
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
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk

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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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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