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Take The Initiative. Go To Work, And Above All Co-operate And Don't Hold Back On One Another Or Try To Gain At The Expense Of Another. Any Success In Such Lopsidedness Will Be Increasingly Short-lived. These Are The Synergetic Rules That Evolution Is Employing And Trying To Make Clear To Us. They Are Not Man-made Laws. They Are The Infinitely Accommodative Laws Of The Intellectual Integrity Governing Universe.

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Take The Initiative. Go To Work, And Above All Co-operate And Don't Hold Back On One Another Or Try To Gain At The Expense Of Another. Any Success In Such Lopsidedness Will Be Increasingly Short-lived. These Are The Synergetic Rules That Evolution Is Employing And Trying To Make Clear To Us. They Are Not Man-made Laws. They Are The Infinitely Accommodative Laws Of The Intellectual Integrity Governing Universe.

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Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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A Pattern Has An Integrity Independent Of The Medium By Virtue Of Which You Have Received The Information That It Exists.

Love Is A Metaphysical Gravity.

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

Everyone Has The Perfect Gift To Give The World-and If Each Of Us Is Freed Up To Give Our Unique Gift, The World Will Be In Total Harmony.

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What The Scientists Have Always Found By Physical Experiment Was An A Priori Orderliness Of Nature, Or Universe Always Operating At An Elegance Level That Made The Discovering Scientist's Working Hypotheses Seem Crude By Comparison. The Discovered Reality Made The Scientists Exploratory Work Seem Relatively Disorderly.

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There Is No Energy Crisis, Only A Crisis Of Ignorance.

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

Every Time Man Makes A New Experiment He Always Learns More. He Cannot Learn Less.

When I Am Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty But When I Have Finished, If The Solution Is Not Beautiful, I Know It Is Wrong.

Never Show Unfinished Work.

Unfinished Work

Think Of It. We Are Blessed With Technology That Would Be Indescribable To Our Forefathers. We Have The Wherewithal, The Know-it-all To Feed Everybody, Clothe Everybody, And Give Every Human On Earth A Chance. We Know Now What We Could Never Have Known Before - That We Now Have The Option For All Humanity To Make It Successfully On This Planet In This Lifetime. Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.

The Pyramids, Attached With Age, Have Forgotten The Names Of Their Founders.

Geniuses Are Just People Who Had Good Mothers.

The Opposite Of Nature Is Impossible.

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It Seems That Truth Is Progressive Approximation In Which The Relative Fraction Of Our Spontaneously Tolerated Residual Error Constantly Diminishes.

There Is An Inherently Minimum Set Of Essential Concepts And Current Information, Cognizance Of Which Could Lead To Our Operating Our Planet Earth To The Lasting Satisfaction And Health Of All Humanity.

All Of Humanity Now Has The Option To "make It" Successfully And Sustainably, By Virtue Of Our Having Minds, Discovering Principles And Being Able To Employ These Principles To Do More With Less.

I Have Great Hope For Tomorrow. My Hope Lies In Three Things-truth, Youth, And Love.

We Are Not Going To Be Able To Operate Our Spaceship Earth Successfully Nor For Much Longer Unless We See It As A Whole Spaceship And Our Fate As Common. It Has To Be Everybody Or Nobody.

Pollution Is Merely A Resource That Isn't Being Used Properly.

By 2000, Politics Will Simply Fade Away. We Will Not See Any Political Parties.

There Is Only One Revolution Tolerable To All Men, All Societies, All Political Systems: Revolution By Design And Invention.

People Should Think Things Out Fresh And Not Just Accept Conventional Terms And The Conventional Way Of Doing Things.

We Are Most Probably Here For Local Information-gathering And Local-universe Problem-solving In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe.

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Dear Reader, Traditional Human Power Structures And Their Reign Of Darkness Are About To Be Rendered Obsolete.

Our Power Is In Our Ability To Decide.

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