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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
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Truth
Enough
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Lying

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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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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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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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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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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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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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