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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
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
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
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs