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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
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
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
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
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
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
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
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
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
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
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking