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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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Massachusetts
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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... 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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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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