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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
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
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
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
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
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
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