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A good design is not a democratic consensus.

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
Business
Good
Consensus
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Democratic
Design

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It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
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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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Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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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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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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