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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
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
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
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
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
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
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
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
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
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