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.
EDWARD DE BONOIt 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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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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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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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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