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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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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
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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Creativity Idea Value
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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
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
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
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
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
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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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity Different Establishment Order Pattern Way

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.

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