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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

Edward de Bono

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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Operational People Science Teaching
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
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
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
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Aspect Creativity Important Motivational Powerful Source Willing
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
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
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World

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