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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Edward de Bono

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
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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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
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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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
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
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
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

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