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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gathering Integrity Support
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
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years