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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.

R. Buckminster Fuller

[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
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
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
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together