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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

Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
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
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
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
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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 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
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
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology