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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
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
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
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
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
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
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
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
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