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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Communication Humanity Understanding
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
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
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
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
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
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
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave