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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Competence Enormous
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Better Get Little Machine Politically
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Money People Want
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Boards Earth Four
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Radiation Together
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science