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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
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
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
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
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique