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R. Buckminster Fuller

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
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
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
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
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage
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
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More

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