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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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Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.
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... reform the environment and not man being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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