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If Humans Are Not Required To Earn A Living To Be Provided Survival Needs, Many Are Going To Want Very Much To Be Productive, But Not At Those Tasks They Did Not Choose To Do But Were Forced To Accept In Order To Earn Money. Instead, Humans Will Spontaneously Take Upon Themselves Those Tasks That World Society Really Needs To Have Done.

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If Humans Are Not Required To Earn A Living To Be Provided Survival Needs, Many Are Going To Want Very Much To Be Productive, But Not At Those Tasks They Did Not Choose To Do But Were Forced To Accept In Order To Earn Money. Instead, Humans Will Spontaneously Take Upon Themselves Those Tasks That World Society Really Needs To Have Done.

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The Question Of Integrity Will Get Finer And Finer And More Delicate And More Beautiful.

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Nature Is All That We Think We Know Plus All That We Don't Know Whether Or Not We Know That We Don't Know It.

My Ideas Have Undergone A Process Of Emergence By Emergency. When They Are Needed Badly Enough, They Are Accepted.

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Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

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Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

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You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More. The Reason I Know So Much Is Because I Have Made So Many Mistakes.

Does Humanity Have A Chance To Survive Lastingly And Successfully On Planet Earth, And If So, How?

You Either Make Sense Or You Make Money.

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Integrity Is The Essence Of Everything Successful.

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The Highest Of Generalizations Is The Synergetic Integration Of Truth And Love.

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Ideas Are Easy To Come By; Reduction To Practice Is An Arduous But Inspirationally Rewarding Matter.

You Cannot Question An Assumption You Do Not Know You Have Made.

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Each One Of Us Has Something To Contribute. This Really Depends On Each One Doing Their Own Thinking, But Not Following Any Kind Of Rule.

If We Do More With Less, Our Response Will Be Adequate To Take Care Of Everybody.

Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place. And Never Forget, No Matter How Overwhelming Life's Challenges And Problems Seem To Be, That One Person Can Make A Difference In The World. In Fact, It Is Always Because Of One Person That All The Changes That Matter In The World Come About. So Be That One Person.

There Is No Joy Equal To That Of Being Able To Work For All Humanity And Doing What You're Doing Well.

Bite Your Tongue. Get A Cinder In Your Eye. When You Feel Good, You Feel Nothing.

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Parents Are Usually More Careful To Bestow Knowledge On Their Children Rather Than Virtue, The Art Of Speaking Well Rather Than Doing Well; But Their Manners Should Be Of The Greatest Concern.

Wealth Is A Measure Of A Person's Ability To Survive So Many Days Forward.

The Difference Between Mind And Brain Is That Brain Deals Only With Memorized, Subjective, Special-case Experiences And Objective Experiments, While Mind Extracts And Employs The Generalized Principles And Integrates And Interrelates Their Effective Employment.

Everyone Is Born A Genius.

You Don't Belong To You. You Belong To The Universe And You're Here To Serve.

You Can Rest Assured That If You Devote Your Time And Attention To The Highest Advantage Of Others, The Universe Will Support You, Always And Only In The Nick Of Time.

The Eternal Is Omniembracing And Permeative; And The Temporal Is Linear. This Opens Up A Very High Order Of Generalizations Of Generalizations. The Truth Could Not Be More Omni-important, Although It Is Often Manifestly Operative Only As A Linear Identification Of A Special-case Experience On A Specialized Subject.

At First The, Only Subconsciously Apprehended, Approaching Confluences Of Complex Events Make Themselves Known Intuitively Within The Intellectual Weather. Then Comes A Gradually Awakening Consciousness Of The Presence Of New Families Of Differentiating-out Challenging Concepts Of Every Day Prominence. It Is With These Randomly Patterning Families Of Separate Concepts That Evolution Is About To Deal Integratively. As A Now Specific Unitary Problem It May Be Disposed Of Effectively When And If That Unified Problem Becomes "adequately Stated" And Thereby Comprehensibly Solvable.

By And Large, I Seem To Have Made More Mistakes Than Any Others Of Whom I Know, But Have Learned Thereby To Make Ever Swifter Acknowledgment Of The Errors And Thereafter Immediately Set About To Deal More Effectively With The Truths Disclosed By The Acknowledgment Of Erroneous Assumptions.

Dwell Not Too Long Upon Sports: For As They Refresh A Man That Is Weary, So They Weary A Man That Is Refreshed.

There Are No Solids. There Are No Things. There Are Only Interfering And Non-interfering Patterns Operative In Pure Principle, And Principles Are Eternal.

Our Beds Are Empty Two-thirds Of The Time. Our Living Rooms Are Empty Seven-eighths Of The Time. Our Office Buildings Are Empty One-half Of The Time. It's Time We Gave This Some Thought.

On First Priority In Design Consideration Is The Full Realization Of Individual Potential In Order To Reach The Second Derivative Full Realization For All Individuals

The Vector Equilibrium Is The Zero Point For Happenings Or Nonhappenings: It Is The Empty Theater And Empty Circus And Empty Universe Ready To Accommodate Any Act And Any Audience.

The Procedure We Are Pursuing Is That Of True Democracy. Semi-democracy Accepts The Dictatorship Of A Majority In Establishing Its Arbitrary, Ergo, Unnatural, Laws. True Democracy Discovers By Patient Experiment And Unanimous Acknowledgement What The Laws Of Nature Or Universe May Be For The Physical Support And Metaphysical Satisfaction Of The Human Intellect's Function In Universe.

Love Is Omni-inclusive, Progressively Exquisite, Understanding And Compassionately Attuned To Other Than Self.

Mistakes Are Great, The More I Make The Smarter I Get.

I Must Reorganize The Environment Of Man By Which Then Greater Numbers Of Men Can Prosper.

You Never Change Things By Fighting The Existing Reality. To Change Something, Build A New Model That Makes The Existing Model Obsolete.

I Live On Earth At Present, And I Don’t Know What I Am. I Know That I Am Not A Category. I Am Not A Thing — A Noun. I Seem To Be A Verb, An Evolutionary Process – An Integral Function Of The Universe.

Real Wealth Is Ideas Plus Energy.

The Earth Is Like A Spaceship That Didn't Come With An Operating Manual.

Search Others For Their Virtue, And Yourself For Your Vices.

Nature Is Trying Very Hard To Make Us Succeed, But Nature Does Not Depend On Us. We Are Not The Only Experiment.

Rashness Is The Faithful, But Unhappy Parent Of Misfortune.

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Humanity Has The Option To Become Successful On Our Planet If We Reorient World Production Away From Weaponry - From Killingry To Livingry. Can We Convince Humanity In Time?

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.

Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.... Humanity Is In 'final Exam' As To Whether Or Not It Qualifies For Continuance In Universe.

If You Are The Master Be Sometimes Blind, If You Are The Servant Be Sometimes Deaf.

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Most Of My Advances Were By Mistake. You Uncover What Is When You Get Rid Of What Isn't.

For At Least 2,000,000 Years Men Have Been Reproducing And Multiplying On A Little Automated Spaceship Called Earth.

I'm Not Trying To Counsel Any Of You To Do Anything Really Special Except Dare To Think. And To Dare To Go With The Truth. And To Dare To Really Love Completely.

If Success Or Failure Of This Planet And Of Human Beings Depended On How I Am And What I Do... How Would I Be? What Would I Do?

Doing The Right Things For The Wrong Reasons Is Typical Of Humanity. Precession - Not Conscious Planning - Provides A Productive Outcome For Misguided Political And Military Campaigns.

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