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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

R. Buckminster Fuller

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
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
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
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
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
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
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
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
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
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