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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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