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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

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
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
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
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
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
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
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
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
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology