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America is not just a country, it's an idea.

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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America
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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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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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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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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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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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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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