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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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
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
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
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
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
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.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
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
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
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
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge

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