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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
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
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships

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