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The opposite of nature is impossible.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
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
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.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
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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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want

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