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If you change the environment, you change the people.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
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
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
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
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown

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