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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
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Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
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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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By the time you are 88 years old, you have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water.
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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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Don't change the man. Change his environment.
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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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