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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
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
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
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
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
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
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
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
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity