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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
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
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical