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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

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
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
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
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
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
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
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
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
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
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
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
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
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
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
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
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
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking