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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
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
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
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
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