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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
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
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
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
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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