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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
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
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
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
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
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
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying