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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
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
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
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
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
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