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I Have To Say, I Think That We Are In Some Kind Of Final Examination As To Whether Human Beings Now, With This Capability To Acquire Information And To Communicate, Whether We're Really Qualified To Take On The Responsibility We're Designed To Be Entrusted With. And This Is Not A Matter Of An Examination Of The Types Of Governments, Nothing To Do With Politics, Nothing To Do With Economic Systems. It Has To Do With The Individual. Does The Individual Have The Courage To Really Go Along With The Truth?

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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I Have To Say, I Think That We Are In Some Kind Of Final Examination As To Whether Human Beings Now, With This Capability To Acquire Information And To Communicate, Whether We're Really Qualified To Take On The Responsibility We're Designed To Be Entrusted With. And This Is Not A Matter Of An Examination Of The Types Of Governments, Nothing To Do With Politics, Nothing To Do With Economic Systems. It Has To Do With The Individual. Does The Individual Have The Courage To Really Go Along With The Truth?

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