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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
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
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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