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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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I Set About Fifty-five

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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Mistakes Are Great, The More I Make The Smarter I Get.

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Universe To Each Must Be All That Is, Including Me. Environment In Turn Must Be All That Is, Excepting Me.

How Often I Found Where I Should Be Going Only By Setting Out For Somewhere Else.

Dear Reader, Traditional Human Power Structures And Their Reign Of Darkness Are About To Be Rendered Obsolete.

War Is Obsolete. We Are Not Here To Fight Something Or Tear Something Down; We Are Here To Be The Example Of What Is Possible. Any Sane Individual Will Tell You That Violence Is ... Not The Way.

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If Humanity Does Not Opt For Integrity We Are Through Completely. It Is Absolutely Touch And Go. Each One Of Us Could Make The Difference.

God Is The Great Comprehensive A Priori Integrity Of Universe Within Which Human Beings Find Themselves To Be Operating.

Consisting Mostly Of Recirculating Scrapped Metals, 80% Of All The Metals That Have Ever Been Mined Are Still At Work.

To Do More And More With Less And Less Until Eventually You Can Do Everything With Nothing.

Those Who Play With The Devil's Toys Will Be Brought By Degrees To Wield His Sword.

Are You Spontaneously Enthusiastic About Everyone Having Everything You Can Have?

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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?

Always Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And Do So Promptly - Right Now.

Ignorance And Greed Are Part Of The Evolutionary Process, Which Is Just To Say That Mistakes Are Part Of Learning. There Is Nothing Bad About Behaviors Or Perceptions That Do Not Work; They Simply Have To Be Given Up And Replaced By Behaviors Or Perceptions That Do Work.

The True Business Of People Should Be To Go Back To School And Think About Whatever It Was They Were Thinking About Before Somebody Came Along And Told Them They Had To Earn A Living.

Gold And Silver From The Dead Turn Often Into Lead.

Gold And Silver

There Is No Such Thing As Genius, Some Children Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.... Humanity Is In 'final Exam' As To Whether Or Not It Qualifies For Continuance In Universe.

Everything Can Be Linked Together In Some Fashion, In Either A Physical, Psychological, Or Symbolic Manner.

A Pattern Has An Integrity Independent Of The Medium By Virtue Of Which You Have Received The Information That It Exists.

I Have Spent Most Of My Life Unlearning Things That Were Proved Not To Be True

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The Question Of Integrity Will Get Finer And Finer And More Delicate And More Beautiful.

Nature Is All That We Think We Know Plus All That We Don't Know Whether Or Not We Know That We Don't Know It.

Integrity Is The Essence Of Everything Successful.

I Find Man Utterly Unaware Of What His Wealth Is Or His Fundamental Capability Is. He Says Time And Again, "we Can't Afford It." For Instance, We Are Saying Now That We Can't Afford To Do Anything About Pollution But After The Costs Of Not Doing Something About Pollution Have Multiplied Many Fold Beyond What It Would Cost To Correct It Now, We Will Spend Many Fold What It Would Cost Us Now To Correct It.

Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

A Designer Is An Emerging Synthesis Of Artist, Inventor, Mechanic, Objective Economist And Evolutionary Strategist.

I Must Reorganize The Environment Of Man By Which Then Greater Numbers Of Men Can Prosper.

There Are No Solids. There Are No Things. There Are Only Interfering And Non-interfering Patterns Operative In Pure Principle, And Principles Are Eternal.

Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

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Thou Mayest As Well Expect To Grow Stronger By Always Eating As Wiser By Always Reading. Too Much Overcharges Nature, And Turns More Into Disease Than Nourishment. 'tis Thought And Digestion Which Makes Books Serviceable, And Give Health And Vigor To The Mind.

Humanity Is Acquiring All The Right Technology For All The Wrong Reasons.

A Fool With A Tool Still Remains A Fool.

Man Is Going To Be Displaced Altogether As A Specialist By The Computer. Man Himself Is Being Forced To Reestablish, Employ, And Enjoy His Innate 'comprehensivity.

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