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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

Edward de Bono

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
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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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Company Competition Death Focus Thrive Ultimate
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
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
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.
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Allow Analysis Description Purpose Science
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit 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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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
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
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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