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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
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
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
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
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
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
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
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
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand