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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
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
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous