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Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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