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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
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
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
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
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
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
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
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
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe