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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
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
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
… 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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
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
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
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.
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Book Humanity Reading
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