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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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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Massachusetts
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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