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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
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
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
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
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
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
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
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