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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.

R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
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
… 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
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
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
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Difficult Humanity Transformation
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
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
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner