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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Differences Humanity Integrity
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eye Feel Good Philosophy
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space