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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
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
[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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Radiation Together
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
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
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Nouns Verbs
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
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