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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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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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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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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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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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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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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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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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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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