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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
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
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
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
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
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