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Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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
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

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