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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Communication Humanity Understanding
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
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
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
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
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

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

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