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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Edward de Bono

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
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
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
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
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
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
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
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary

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