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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
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
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
[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
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Blessed Technology Thinking
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
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
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three