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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
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.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years