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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
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
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
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
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Age Attention Support You
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War