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Some of us are just less damaged than others.

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
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
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
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving

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