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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.

Edward de Bono

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
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Imagination Story Time Writing
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Chance Company Insurance Solid Wealth
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
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
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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Place Problem Remove Solve
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
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
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Aspect Creativity Important Motivational Powerful Source Willing
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching 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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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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