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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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