There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.


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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he'...
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one...
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in ano...
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but...
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Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least onc...
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy...
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in hi...
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation wi...
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p...
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing wh...
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It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solvin...
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one...
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model...
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc...
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...
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In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ...
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit...
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu...
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There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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