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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
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
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
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
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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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 are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation