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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
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.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
[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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown