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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
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
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
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
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
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
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
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying