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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
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
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
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
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
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
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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