The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's … - R. Buckminster Fuller

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If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

Self, Humanity, World, Designed, Serving

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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

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It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.

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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

Away, Drudgery, Earn, Earning A Living, Living, Notion

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If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months.

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Doris Lessing

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

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Clare Boothe Luce

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.

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Jacques Roumain

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

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