History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors … - R. Buckminster Fuller

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Sex for men: when it's right, it's right; when it's wrong, it's still right.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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.

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Sex for men: when it's right, it's right; when it's wrong, it's still right.

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What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

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Christopher Walken

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

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We could fight the fuss till we get like friends, Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends. Even in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it. Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose.

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When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

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