We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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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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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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