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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

…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
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
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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
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
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