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By And Large, I Seem To Have Made More Mistakes Than Any Others Of Whom I Know, But Have Learned Thereby To Make Ever Swifter Acknowledgment Of The Errors And Thereafter Immediately Set About To Deal More Effectively With The Truths Disclosed By The Acknowledgment Of Erroneous Assumptions.

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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By And Large, I Seem To Have Made More Mistakes Than Any Others Of Whom I Know, But Have Learned Thereby To Make Ever Swifter Acknowledgment Of The Errors And Thereafter Immediately Set About To Deal More Effectively With The Truths Disclosed By The Acknowledgment Of Erroneous Assumptions.

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However, If We Leave The Industrial Machinery And Their Energy-distribution Networks And Leave Them Also All The People Who Have Routine Jobs Operating The Industrial Machinery And Distributing Its Products, And We Take Away From All The Industrial Countries All Their Ideologies And All The Politicians And Political Machine Workers, People Would Keep Right On Eating. Possibly Getting On A Little Better Than Before.

We Are Operating At An Overall Mechanical Efficiency Of Only Four Percent... Therefore, We Find That If We Increase The Overall Mechanical Efficiency To Only Twelve Percent We Can Take Care Of Everybody. That Three-fold Increase In The Overall Efficiency Can Only Be Accomplished By Redesign.

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. Then You Will Conceive Your Own Way Of Doing That Which Needs To Be Done - That No One Else Has Told You To Do Or How To Do It. This Will Bring Out The Real You That Often Gets Buried Inside A Character That Has Acquired A Superficial Array Of Behaviors Induced Or Imposed By Others On The Individual.

We Will Always Have War Until There Is Enough Of Every Essential To Support All Lives Everywhere Around Earth.

We Are Most Probably Here For Local Information-gathering And Local-universe Problem-solving In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe.

The Universe Consists Of Non-simultaneously Apprehended Events.

It Is Not For Me To Change You. The Question Is, How Can I Be Of Service To You Without Diminishing Your Degrees Of Freedom?

I Am Enthusiastic Over Humanity’s Extraordinary And Sometimes Very Timely Ingenuity. If You Are In A Shipwreck And All The Boats Are Gone, A Piano Top Buoyant Enough To Keep You Afloat That Comes Along Makes A Fortuitous Life Preserver. But This Is Not To Say That The Best Way To Design A Life Preserver Is In The Form Of A Piano Top. I Think That We Are Clinging To A Great Many Piano Tops In Accepting Yesterday’s Fortuitous Contrivings As Constituting The Only Means For Solving A Given Problem.

You Never Change Things By Fighting The Existing Reality. To Change Something, Build A New Model That Makes The Existing Model Obsolete.

Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place. And Never Forget, No Matter How Overwhelming Life's Challenges And Problems Seem To Be, That One Person Can Make A Difference In The World. In Fact, It Is Always Because Of One Person That All The Changes That Matter In The World Come About. So Be That One Person.

It Is One Of Our Most Exciting Discoveries That Local Discovery Leads To A Complex Of Further Discoveries. Corollary To This We Find That We No Sooner Get A Problem Solved Than We Are Overwhelmed With A Multiplicity Of Additional Problems In A Most Beautiful Payoff Of Heretofore Unknown, Previously Unrecognized, & As-yet Unsolved Problems.

Tombs Are The Clothes Of The Dead And A Grave Is A Plain Suit; While An Expensive Monument Is One With Embroidery.

What Humans Have Spontaneously Identified As Good And Bad - Or As Positive And Negative - Are Evolutionary Complementations In Need Of More Accurate Identifications.

With Our Minds Alone We Can Discover Those Principles We Need To Employ To Convert All Humanity To Success In A New, Harmonious Relationship With The Universe.

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There Is Enough For Everyone. People Think That There Isn't Enough, So They Get As Much As They Can, So Many People Don't Have Enough.

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There Are Over 2 Million Cars Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going. Then We Have Over 2 Million Times Approximately 100 Horsepower Being Generated As They Are Idling There, So That We Have Something Like 200 Million Horses Jumping Up And Down And Going Nowhere. Now, We Have To Count That In Our Economy When We Begin To Get Down To What Is The Efficiency Of The Economy.

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Man Knows So Much And Does So Little.

Don't Change The Man. Change His Environment.

You Take The Senses Away, And There Is No Consciousness. Consciousness Comes From Experience.

People Should Think Things Out Fresh And Not Just Accept Conventional Terms And The Conventional Way Of Doing Things.

Love Is A Metaphysical Gravity.

The Vector Equilibrium Is The Zero Point For Happenings Or Nonhappenings: It Is The Empty Theater And Empty Circus And Empty Universe Ready To Accommodate Any Act And Any Audience.

We Have Reached The Point Where We Are Now Possessed Of Sufficient Information For Each Individual Human To Dare To Exercise The Option To "make It" Rather Than Having To Depend On The Decisions Of An Educated Elite.

Love Is Omni-inclusive, Progressively Exquisite, Understanding And Compassionately Attuned To Other Than Self.

All Children Are Born Geniuses, And We Spend The First Six Years Of Their Lives Degeniusing Them.

People Never Leave A Sinking Ship Until They See The Lights Of Another Ship Approaching.

Don't Try To Make Me Consistent. I Am Learning All The Time.

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