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

R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
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
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Guitar Leadership Strength
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
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
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
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
[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
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
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
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