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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
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
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
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
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern