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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

Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe