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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
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
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities