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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Edward de Bono

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
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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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
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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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
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
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
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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Argument Criticism Design Opportunity Technology Value
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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
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

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