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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
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
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
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
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
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
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
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
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology