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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
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
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
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
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
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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