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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
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
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
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
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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