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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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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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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?
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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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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All children are born geniuses 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
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