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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
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
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together