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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political