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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

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
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
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Blessed Technology Thinking
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
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
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking