The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and … - R. Buckminster Fuller

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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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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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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