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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.

R. Buckminster Fuller

And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
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
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
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
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
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