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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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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.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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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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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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