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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
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
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
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
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically