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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
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
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
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.
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Humanity Military Political
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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.
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Done Needs Things
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully