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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

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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 no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Blessed Technology Thinking
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
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
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years