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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

R. Buckminster Fuller

… 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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
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
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
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
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
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
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men