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The opposite of nature is impossible.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
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
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
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
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
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
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology

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