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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
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
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
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
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
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