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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.  
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political...  
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.  
Don't fight forces, use them.  
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.  
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less...  
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the...  
God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.  
God is a verb, not a noun.  
God is a verb.  
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.  
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.  
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, va...  
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun...  
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for some...  
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reaso...  
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. M...  
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've i...  
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe d...  
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.  
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It i...  
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be so...  
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.  
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to...  
Love is metaphysical gravity.   Love
Man knows so much and does so little.  
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get ...  
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they...  
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not dep...  
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.  
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,...  
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong e...  
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children...  
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional ...  
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow...   Politics
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.  
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.  
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either ...  
Tension is the great integrity.  
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manua...  
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.   Politics
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book d...  
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their fou...  
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a bu...   Nature
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wie...  
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser ...  
To expose a 4.2 trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the s...  
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while a...  
Truth is a tendency.   Politics
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.  
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfull...  
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties ...  
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I ...  
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.