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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

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
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
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
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius