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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
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
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
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 the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs