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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

R. Buckminster Fuller

Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
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
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
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
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
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
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth