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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
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 explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Degrees Diminishing Question
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
… 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
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
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
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous