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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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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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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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