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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
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
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern