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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?

R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gun Moving War
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
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
All sports are time control demonstrations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Demonstration Sports
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