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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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