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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
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
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
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
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
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
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
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