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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.

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
Justice
Appalling
Idea
Hypocrisy
Ideas
Campaign
Campaigns
Reform
Charity
Trade
Poverty
Unstoppable

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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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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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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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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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