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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
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
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.
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Computer Men Technology
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years