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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
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 wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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