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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
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
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner