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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
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
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
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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Learning Men Science
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
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
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things