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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
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
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge