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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
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
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
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 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.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships