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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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Milton
Massachusetts
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War is obsolete.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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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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