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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
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
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 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
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
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
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person