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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking