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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environment Initiative Thinking
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty Creativity Thinking
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Age Attention Support You
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
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
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Circle Philosophy Want