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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
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
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
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
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
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together