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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
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
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology