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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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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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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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Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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You either make sense or you make money.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
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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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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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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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