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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 is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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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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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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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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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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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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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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