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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
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
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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