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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
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
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Differences Humanity Integrity
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
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