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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
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
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
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years