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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
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
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
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
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
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
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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
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