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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War
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
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
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
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
… 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
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self