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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
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 most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political