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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

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
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
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning Men Science
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
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
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad