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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty Creativity Thinking
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
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
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor