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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward de Bono

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
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
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
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
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
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking

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