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God is a verb, not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society

God is a verb, not a noun.

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