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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

Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
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
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
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
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man