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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
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
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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
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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
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
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports