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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

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
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
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
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
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
… 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