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[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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
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
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
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
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