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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

R. Buckminster Fuller

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Democracy Law Support
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
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
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
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
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
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
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
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care