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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
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
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
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
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
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
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
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 look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength