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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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