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If you change the environment, you change the people.

R. Buckminster Fuller

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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
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 wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave

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