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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
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
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
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
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
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
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious