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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Edward de Bono

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Avoidance Important Place Problem System
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
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
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
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
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
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
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need

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