"Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance."

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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