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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

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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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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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