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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
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
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
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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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
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
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher