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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
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Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
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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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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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...doing more with less.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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The impossible happens.
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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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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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