Ideas
In 2000, de Bono advised a UK Foreign Office committee that the Arab–Israeli conflict might be due, in part, to low levels of zinc found in people who eat unleavened bread (e.g. pita flatbread), a known side-effect of which is aggression. He suggested shipping out jars of Marmite to compensate.
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“The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by medias diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares them with new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Young children...are often uninterested in conversation It is not that they dont have ideas and feelings, or need to express them to others It is simply that as one eight-year-old boy once told me, Talking is okay, but I dont like to do it all the time the way grown-ups do; I guess you have to develop the habit.”
—Robert Coles (20th century)