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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
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Democracy Law Support
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
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.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together