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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
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.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play