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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want

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