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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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Massachusetts
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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The impossible happens.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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