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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
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
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
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
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
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
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading

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