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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Edward de Bono

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
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
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
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
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

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

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