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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
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
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
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
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
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
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