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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom

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