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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
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
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking