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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.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

If I Ran A School, I'd Give The Average Grade To The Ones Who Gave Me All The Right Answers, For Being Good Parrots. I'd Give The Top Grades To Those Who Made A Lot Of Mistakes And Told Me About Them, And Then Told Me What They Learned From Them.

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

However, If We Leave The Industrial Machinery And Their Energy-distribution Networks And Leave Them Also All The People Who Have Routine Jobs Operating The Industrial Machinery And Distributing Its Products, And We Take Away From All The Industrial Countries All Their Ideologies And All The Politicians And Political Machine Workers, People Would Keep Right On Eating. Possibly Getting On A Little Better Than Before.

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

Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

Whenever I Draw A Circle, I Immediately Want To Step Out Of It.

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.

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