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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
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.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
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.
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Law Past Thinking
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom