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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

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
Devil
Flee
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Satan
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Thee
Prowling
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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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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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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