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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Buried Impose Individual Inside Superfacila
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
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
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
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
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