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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
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
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
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.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
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.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
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
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe