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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

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe