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R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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.
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It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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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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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Don't change the man. Change his environment.
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