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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
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
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
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
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
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
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically