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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
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
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
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
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
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
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe