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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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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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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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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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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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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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