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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
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
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
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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Divorce Education Lost Love
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
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
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.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
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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Following Kind Thinking