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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special