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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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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Heart Integrity Self
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
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
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
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
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
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used

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