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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
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
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
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
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
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

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