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.
EDWARD DE BONOEvery valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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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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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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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.
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