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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
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?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
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.
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Learning Men Science
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together