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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
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