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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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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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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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