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

R. Buckminster Fuller

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
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
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
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
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes