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Architects, If They Are Really To Be Comprehensive, Must Assume The Enormous Task Of Thinking In Terms Always Disciplined To The Scale Of The Total World Pattern Of Needs, Its Resource Flows, Its Recirculatory And Regenerative Processes.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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Architects, If They Are Really To Be Comprehensive, Must Assume The Enormous Task Of Thinking In Terms Always Disciplined To The Scale Of The Total World Pattern Of Needs, Its Resource Flows, Its Recirculatory And Regenerative Processes.

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