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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
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
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
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
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
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
This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Buried Impose Individual Inside Superfacila
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships