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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
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
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics