"I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers."
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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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"Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad."
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"Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars."
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"Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty."
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"Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress."
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"I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude."
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"Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement."
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"You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper"
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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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."
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"The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions."
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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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"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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"Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness."
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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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"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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"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 . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace."
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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 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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