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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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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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