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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

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R. Buckminster Fuller

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

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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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When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we know of the great world around is known through our states of consciousness, and if we seem to be living a merely objective life, amidst external things, it is because we have become oblivious of the real nature of experience.

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The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

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I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

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