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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
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
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
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
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
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
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three

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