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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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
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
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports