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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
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
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
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
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?
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Economic Examination Government Individual