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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

R. Buckminster Fuller

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
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
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
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
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
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
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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