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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
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
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
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
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking

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