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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
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
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
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
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving