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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World