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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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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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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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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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