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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
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
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
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 live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More