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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

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
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 earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
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
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind