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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
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
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind