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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

Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine 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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real