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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

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
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
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Blessed Technology Thinking
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
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
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
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