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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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