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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Buried Impose Individual Inside Superfacila
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
… 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
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking