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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
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
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World