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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
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
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
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
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
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
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
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding