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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind