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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
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
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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
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.
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Children Frequently People Self