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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

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
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
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
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
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
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
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
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
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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