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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
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
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
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
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
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
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World