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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
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
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks