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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Edward de Bono

Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Attempt Complete Discussion Ego Explore Genuine Subject
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past 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
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
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
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
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
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
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

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