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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

R. Buckminster Fuller

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mistake More Smarter
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
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
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
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
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
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
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy