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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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
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’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More