You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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