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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

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
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
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
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
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
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
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation