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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.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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Humanity Is Acquiring All The Right Technology For All The Wrong Reasons.

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

Integrity Is The Courage And Self-discipline To Cooperate And Initiate According To The Divine, Which You Know In Your Heart As Truth.

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People Never Leave A Sinking Ship Until They See The Lights Of Another Ship Approaching.

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There Is Nothing In A Caterpillar That Tells You It's Going To Be A Butterfly.

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.

A Pattern Has An Integrity Independent Of The Medium By Virtue Of Which You Have Received The Information That It Exists.

Geniuses Are Just People Who Had Good Mothers.

There Is Enough For Everyone. People Think That There Isn't Enough, So They Get As Much As They Can, So Many People Don't Have Enough.

There Is Only One Revolution Tolerable To All Men, All Societies, All Political Systems: Revolution By Design And Invention.

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Only Our Minds Are Able To Discover The Generalized Principles Operating Without Exception In Each And Every Special-experience Case Which If Detected And Mastered Will Give Knowledgeable Advantage In All Instances.

War Is Obsolete. We Are Not Here To Fight Something Or Tear Something Down; We Are Here To Be The Example Of What Is Possible. Any Sane Individual Will Tell You That Violence Is ... Not The Way.

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

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

I Look For What Needs To Be Done. After All, That's How The Universe Designs Itself.

You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More.

Doing The Right Things For The Wrong Reasons Is Typical Of Humanity. Precession - Not Conscious Planning - Provides A Productive Outcome For Misguided Political And Military Campaigns.

Education By Choice, With Its Marvelous Motivating Psychology Of Desire For Truth, Will Make Life Ever Cleaner And Happier, More Rhythmical And Artistic.

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

Our Beds Are Empty Two-thirds Of The Time. Our Living Rooms Are Empty Seven-eighths Of The Time. Our Office Buildings Are Empty One-half Of The Time. It's Time We Gave This Some Thought.

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

Children, As Well As Grown-ups, In Their Individual, Glorified, Drudgery-proof Homes Of Labrador, The Tropics, The Orient, Or Where You Will, To Which They Can Pass With Pleasure And Expedition By Means Of Ever-improving Transportation, Will Be Able To Tune In Their Television And Radio To The Moving Picture Lecture Of, Let Us Say, President Lowell Of Harvard; The Professor Of Mathematics Of Oxford; Of The Doctor Of Indian Antiquities Of Delhi, Etc.

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

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.

My Ideas Have Undergone A Process Of Emergence By Emergency. When They Are Needed Badly Enough, They Are Accepted.

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

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

Love Is Metaphysical Gravity.

One Can Study A Caterpillar Forever And Never Be Able To Predict A Butterfly.

Coping With The Totality Of Spaceship Earth And Universe Is Ahead For All Of Us.

I See God In The Instruments And The Mechanisms That Work Reliably, More Reliably Than The Limited Sensory Departments Of The Human Mechanism.

When Individuals Join In A Cooperative Venture, The Power Generated Far Exceeds What They Could Have Accomplished Acting Individually.

Love Is A Metaphysical Gravity.

Real Wealth Is Ideas Plus Energy.

What Has Not Been Clear Is That The Potential Of This Emergency-born Technology Has Always Accrued To Human's Prewar Individual Initiatives Taken In A Humble But Irrepressible Progression Of Assumptions, Measurements, Deductions, And Codifications Of Pure Science.

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

Thou Mayest As Well Expect To Grow Stronger By Always Eating As Wiser By Always Reading. Too Much Overcharges Nature, And Turns More Into Disease Than Nourishment. 'tis Thought And Digestion Which Makes Books Serviceable, And Give Health And Vigor To The Mind.

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

Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

We Shall Have To Stop Looking Askance On Trends In Relation To Sex Merely As A Reproductive Capability, I.e. That It Is Normal To Make Babies. Society Will Have To Change In Its Assessment Of What The Proclivities Of Humanity May Be. Our Viewpoints On Homosexuality, For Example, May Have To Be Reconsidered And More Wisely Adjusted.

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

Nature Does Have Manure And She Does Have Roots As Well As Blossoms, And You Can't Hate The Manure And Blame The Roots For Not Being Blossoms.

Technologically We Now Have Four [seven!] Billion Billionaires On Board Spaceship Earth Who Are Entirely Unaware Of Their Good Fortune.

Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

The Future Is A Choice Between Utopia And Oblivion.

I'm Not A Genius. I'm Just A Tremendous Bundle Of Experience.

In The United States, Throughout All Twenty-four Hours Of Every Day Of The Year - Year After Year - We Have An Average Of Two Million Automobiles Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going, The Energy For Which Amounts To That Generated By The Full Of Efforts Of 200 Million Horses Being Completley Wasted As They Jump Up And Down Going Nowhere.

It Is One Of Our Most Exciting Discoveries That Local Discovery Leads To A Complex Of Further Discoveries.

Unsolved Problems

The Vector Equilibrium Is The Zero Point For Happenings Or Nonhappenings: It Is The Empty Theater And Empty Circus And Empty Universe Ready To Accommodate Any Act And Any Audience.

The Nearest Each Of Us Can Come To God Is By Loving The Truth.

The Most Important Part About Tomorrow Is Not The Technology Or The Automation, But That Man Is Going To Come Into Entirely New Relationships With His Fellow Men. He Will Retain Much More In His Everyday Life Of What We Term The Naïveté And Idealism Of The Child. I Think The Way To See What Tomorrow Is Going To Look Like Is Just To Look At Our Children.

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The Word Generalization In Literature Usually Means Covering Too Much Territory Too Thinly To Be Persuasive, Let Alone Convincing. In Science, However, A Generalization Means A Principle That Has Been Found To Hold True In Every Special Case.... The Principle Of Leverage Is A Scientific Generalization.

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.

By And Large, I Seem To Have Made More Mistakes Than Any Others Of Whom I Know, But Have Learned Thereby To Make Ever Swifter Acknowledgment Of The Errors And Thereafter Immediately Set About To Deal More Effectively With The Truths Disclosed By The Acknowledgment Of Erroneous Assumptions.

Universe Is Synergetic. Life Is Synergetic.

We Must Start With Scientific Fundamentals, And That Means With The Data Of Experiments And Not With Assumed Axioms Predicated Only Upon The Misleading Nature Of That Which Only Superficially Seems To Be Obvious. It Is The Consensus Of Great Scientists That Science Is The Attempt To Set In Order The Facts Of Experience.

We Live In A Decaying Age. Young People No Longer Respect Their Parents. They Are Rude And Impatient. They Frequently Inhabit Taverns And Have No Self Control.

Humanity Has The Option To Become Successful On Our Planet If We Reorient World Production Away From Weaponry - From Killingry To Livingry. Can We Convince Humanity In Time?

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