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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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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
Rage
Lying
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Truth
Enough
Replace

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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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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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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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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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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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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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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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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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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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