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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love