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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

I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Car Mistake Production Remove
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.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
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
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
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
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
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
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat

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