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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

I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
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
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
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
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
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
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
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails