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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

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
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
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Blessed Technology Thinking
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
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
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
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