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No Man Can Prove Upon Awakening That He Is The Man Who He Thinks Went To Bed The Night Before, Or That Anything That He Recollects Is Anything Other Than A Convincing Dream.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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No Man Can Prove Upon Awakening That He Is The Man Who He Thinks Went To Bed The Night Before, Or That Anything That He Recollects Is Anything Other Than A Convincing Dream.

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I Set About Fifty-five Years Ago (1927) To See What A Penniless, Unknown Human Individual With A Dependent Wife And Newborn Child Might Be Able To Do Effectively On Behalf Of All Humanity

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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.

The Most Important Thing To Teach Your Children Is That The Sun Does Not Rise And Set. It Is The Earth That Revolves Around The Sun. Then Teach Them The Concepts Of North, South, East And West, And That They Relate To Where They Happen To Be On The Planet's Surface At That Time. Everything Else Will Follow.

The Self-commissioned Architect Is The Obviously Exclusive Potential - For As At Present Used, Or Designed, The World's Resources Are Serving Only Forty-four Per Cent Of Humanity.

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The More For Whom We Strive To Serve, The Greater Effectiveness We Will Have.

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Always Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And Do So Promptly - Right Now.

There Is Something Patently Insane About All The Typewriters Sleeping With All The Beautiful Plumbing In The Beautiful Office Buildings -and All The People Sleeping In The Slums.

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All Sports Are Time Control Demonstrations.

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

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The Things To Do Are: The Things That Need Doing: That You See Need To Be Done, And That No One Else Seems To See Need To Be Done. Then You Will Conceive Your Own Way Of Doing That Which Needs To Be Done - That No One Else Has Told You To Do Or How To Do It. This Will Bring Out The Real You That Often Gets Buried Inside A Character That Has Acquired A Superficial Array Of Behaviors Induced Or Imposed By Others On The Individual.

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Our Power Is In Our Ability To Decide.

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Each One Of Us Has Something To Contribute. This Really Depends On Each One Doing Their Own Thinking, But Not Following Any Kind Of Rule.

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Don't Attempt To Reform Man. An Adequately Organized Environment Will Permit Humanity's Original, Innate Capabilities To Become Successful.

If Humanity Does Not Opt For Integrity We Are Through Completely. It Is Absolutely Touch And Go. Each One Of Us Could Make The Difference.

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If You Are The Master Be Sometimes Blind, If You Are The Servant Be Sometimes Deaf.

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We Are Called To Be Architects Of The Future, Not Its Victims.

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Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

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Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics.

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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 Don't Belong To You. You Belong To The Universe And You're Here To Serve.

The Explicable Requires The Inexplicable. Experience Requires The Nonexperienceable. The Obvious Requires The Mystical.

There Is No Such Thing As Genius, Some Children Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

One Of Humanity's Prime Drives Is To Understand And Be Understood. All Other Living Creatures Are Designed For Highly Specialized Tasks. Man Seems Unique As The Comprehensive Comprehender And Co-ordinator Of Local Universe Affairs.

Humanity Is Now Experiencing History's Most Difficult Evolutionary Transformation.

Sharing Is Having More.

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The Assumption Is That The Inevitability Of A Solution's Realization Is Inherent In The Interaction Of Human Intellect And The Constantly Transformative Evolution Of Physical Universe.

Don't Fight Forces, Use Them.

Use It Or Lose It

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I Have Great Hope For Tomorrow. My Hope Lies In Three Things-truth, Youth, And Love.

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Every Time Man Makes A New Experiment He Always Learns More. He Cannot Learn Less. He May Learn That What He Thought Was True Was Not True. By The Elimination Of A False Premise, His Basic Capital Wealth Which In His Given Lifetime Is Disembarrassed Of Further Preoccupation With Considerations Of How To Employ A Worthless Time-consuming Hypothesis. Freeing His Time For Its More Effective Exploratory Investment Is To Give Man Increased Wealth.

It Is One Of The Strange Facts Of Experience That When We Try To Think About The Future, Our Thoughts Jump Backwards. It May Well Be That Nature Has Some Fundamental Metaphysical Law By Which Opening Up What We Call The Future Also Opens Up The Past In Equal Degree.

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.

If Humans Are Not Required To Earn A Living To Be Provided Survival Needs, Many Are Going To Want Very Much To Be Productive, But Not At Those Tasks They Did Not Choose To Do But Were Forced To Accept In Order To Earn Money. Instead, Humans Will Spontaneously Take Upon Themselves Those Tasks That World Society Really Needs To Have Done.

Those Who Play With The Devil's Toys Will Be Brought By Degrees To Wield His Sword.

The Purpose Of Our Lives Is To Add Value To The People Of This Generation And Those That Follow.

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American Labor Will Realize That Its Function Is Not To Increase Jobs, But To Multiply The Wealth And To Expand The Numbers Benefited By The Wealth At The Swiftest Possible Rate.

The Things To Do Are: The Things That Need Doing, That You See Need To Be Done, And That No One Else Seems To See Need To Be Done.

It Is A Fact Today That One In Ten Thousand Of Us Can Make A Technological Breakthrough Capable Of Supporting All The Rest.

Tension Is The Great Integrity.

The World Has Become Too Dangerous For Anything Less Than Utopia.

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Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place. And Never Forget, No Matter How Overwhelming Life's Challenges And Problems Seem To Be, That One Person Can Make A Difference In The World. In Fact, It Is Always Because Of One Person That All The Changes That Matter In The World Come About. So Be That One Person.

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The Wave Is Not The Water. The Water Merely Told Us About The Wave Moving By.

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

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Man Knows So Much And Does So Little.

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