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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
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
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
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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Book Humanity Reading
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 explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious