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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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