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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
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
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Frequently People Self
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 have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
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
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want