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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

Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Giving People Thinking
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
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
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
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years