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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
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
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
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
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
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
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World