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Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
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
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher

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