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Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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 say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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