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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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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
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All children are born geniuses 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
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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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The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.
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