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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political 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
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
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
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
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
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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