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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
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
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
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
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success