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The Procedure We Are Pursuing Is That Of True Democracy. Semi-democracy Accepts The Dictatorship Of A Majority In Establishing Its Arbitrary, Ergo, Unnatural, Laws. True Democracy Discovers By Patient Experiment And Unanimous Acknowledgement What The Laws Of Nature Or Universe May Be For The Physical Support And Metaphysical Satisfaction Of The Human Intellect's Function In Universe.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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The Procedure We Are Pursuing Is That Of True Democracy. Semi-democracy Accepts The Dictatorship Of A Majority In Establishing Its Arbitrary, Ergo, Unnatural, Laws. True Democracy Discovers By Patient Experiment And Unanimous Acknowledgement What The Laws Of Nature Or Universe May Be For The Physical Support And Metaphysical Satisfaction Of The Human Intellect's Function In Universe.

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People Should Think Things Out Fresh And Not Just Accept Conventional Terms And The Conventional Way Of Doing Things.

I Would Say, Then, That You Are Faced With A Future In Which Education Is Going To Be Number One Amongst The Great World Industries.

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Ninety-nine Per Cent Of Who You Are Is Invisible And Untouchable.

I'm Not Trying To Counsel Any Of You To Do Anything Really Special Except Dare To Think. And To Dare To Go With The Truth. And To Dare To Really Love Completely.

Only The Free-wheeling Artist-explorer, Non-academic, Scientist-philosopher, Mechanic, Economist-poet Who Has Never Waited For Patron-starting And Accrediting Of His Co-ordinate Capabilities Holds The Prime Initiative Today.

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Tension Is The Great Integrity.

The Vector Equilibrium Is The True Zero Reference Of The Energetic Mathematics. Zero Pulsation In The Vector Equilibrium Is The Nearest Approach We Will Ever Know To Eternity And God: The Zero Phase Of Conceptual Integrity Inherent In The Positive And Negative Asymmetries That Propagate The Differentials Of Consciousness.

To Do More And More With Less And Less Until Eventually You Can Do Everything With Nothing.

Most Of My Advances Were By Mistake. You Uncover What Is When You Get Rid Of What Isn't.

However, If We Leave The Industrial Machinery And Their Energy-distribution Networks And Leave Them Also All The People Who Have Routine Jobs Operating The Industrial Machinery And Distributing Its Products, And We Take Away From All The Industrial Countries All Their Ideologies And All The Politicians And Political Machine Workers, People Would Keep Right On Eating. Possibly Getting On A Little Better Than Before.

Pollution Is Nothing But The Resources We Are Not Harvesting. We Allow Them To Disperse Because We've Been Ignorant Of Their Value.

Great Nations Are Simply The Operating Fronts Of Behind-the-scenes, Vastly Ambitious Individuals Who Had Become So Effectively Powerful Because Of Their Ability To Remain Invisible While Operating Behind The National Scenery.

The Opposite Of Nature Is Impossible.

The Highest Of Generalizations Is The Synergetic Integration Of Truth And Love.

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If You Want To Teach People A New Way Of Thinking, Don't Bother Trying To Teach Them. Instead, Give Them A Tool, The Use Of Which Will Lead To New Ways Of Thinking.

The More We Learn The More We Realize How Little We Know.

You Can Rest Assured That If You Devote Your Time And Attention To The Highest Advantage Of Others, The Universe Will Support You, Always And Only In The Nick Of Time.

It Is Now Highly Feasible To Take Care Of Everybody On Earth At A 'higher Standard Of Living Than Any Have Ever Known.' It No Longer Has To Be You Or Me. Selfishness Is Unnecessary And Henceforth Unrationalizable As Mandated By Survival.

Children Will Draw Pictures With Everything In Them...houses And Trees And People And Animals...and The Sun And The Moon. Grown-up Says, "that's A Nice Picture, Honey, But You Put The Moon And The Sun In The Sky At The Same Time And That Isn't Right." But The Child Is Right! The Sun And Moon Are In The Sky At The Same Time.

Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

I'm Not Trying To Copy Nature, I'm Trying To Find The Principles She's Using.

The Eternal Is Omniembracing And Permeative; And The Temporal Is Linear. This Opens Up A Very High Order Of Generalizations Of Generalizations. The Truth Could Not Be More Omni-important, Although It Is Often Manifestly Operative Only As A Linear Identification Of A Special-case Experience On A Specialized Subject.

Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.... Humanity Is In 'final Exam' As To Whether Or Not It Qualifies For Continuance In Universe.

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