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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World

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