A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
EDWARD DE BONOTo me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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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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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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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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