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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

R. Buckminster Fuller

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
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
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
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
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
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 am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving