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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
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
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Inspirational Motivational World
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
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails