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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
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
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
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
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere