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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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Inspirational Success
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World