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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

Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
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
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
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
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking