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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
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
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth