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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
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
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.
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Learning Men Science
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
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
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking