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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.
Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
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Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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