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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
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
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
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
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
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
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
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men