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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

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Buried Impose Individual Inside Superfacila
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
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
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
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
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles