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

R. Buckminster Fuller

We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning Men Science
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Differences Humanity Integrity
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
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 learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Education Inspirational Teacher