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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hippie People Thinking
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
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
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking