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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
… 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
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
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
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
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
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
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play