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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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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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