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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?

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
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
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking