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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Immediately Problem Realistically
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
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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Communication Humanity Understanding
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
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
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
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
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men