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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
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
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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America Order Years
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing