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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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