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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
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
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation