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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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All children are born geniuses 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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...doing more with less.
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Don't change the man. Change his environment.
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It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
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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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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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