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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

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
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
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
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
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
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
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War