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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
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
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
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
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