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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
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
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
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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Jobs Numbers Politics
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
… 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
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
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