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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

R. Buckminster Fuller

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
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.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
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