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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Edward de Bono

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
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
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
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
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
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
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking
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
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent

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