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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

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
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
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
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
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
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Humanity Numbers Obvious
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe