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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
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
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
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
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
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.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge