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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
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
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
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
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
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
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
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
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