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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
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Integrity Law Men
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
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
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown