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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

R. Buckminster Fuller

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
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
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
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.
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Knows Plus Thinking
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
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
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
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
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
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding