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

R. Buckminster Fuller

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
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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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard