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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
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
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
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
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
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
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious