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

R. Buckminster Fuller

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
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
[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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
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
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology