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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
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
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
… 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
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
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
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
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
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 Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
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
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
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
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
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy