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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
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
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
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking