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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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Observation Of My Life To Date Shows That The Larger The Number For Whom I Work, The More Positively Effective I Become. Thus, It Is Obvious That If I Work Always And Only For All Humanity, I Will Be Optimally Effective.

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We Have Reached The Point Where We Are Now Possessed Of Sufficient Information For Each Individual Human To Dare To Exercise The Option To "make It" Rather Than Having To Depend On The Decisions Of An Educated Elite.

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Fire Is The Sun Unwinding From The Tree's Log.

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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.

We Find All The No-life-support-wealth-producing People Going To Their 1980s Jobs In Their Cars And Buses, Spending Trillions Of Dollars' Worth Of Petroleum Daily To Get To Their No-wealth-producing Jobs. It Doesn't Take A Computer To Tell You That It Will Save Both Universe And Humanity Trillions Of Dollars A Day To Pay Them Handsomely To Stay At Home.

All Human Advances Occur In The Outlaw Area.

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Well On Its Way To Being Solved.

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The Pyramids, Attached With Age, Have Forgotten The Names Of Their Founders.

What The Scientists Have Always Found By Physical Experiment Was An A Priori Orderliness Of Nature, Or Universe Always Operating At An Elegance Level That Made The Discovering Scientist's Working Hypotheses Seem Crude By Comparison. The Discovered Reality Made The Scientists Exploratory Work Seem Relatively Disorderly.

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Ideas Are Easy To Come By; Reduction To Practice Is An Arduous But Inspirationally Rewarding Matter.

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.

You Cannot Question An Assumption You Do Not Know You Have Made.

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