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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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
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
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
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True