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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
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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Child Children Newborn Years
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space