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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius