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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
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
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
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
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
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 Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
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
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World