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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

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
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
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
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
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology