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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.

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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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