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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
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
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious