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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
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
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
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
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
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
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
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
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success