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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?

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
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
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
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
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
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