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R. Buckminster Fuller

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
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
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
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
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
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
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self

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