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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
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Don't change the man. Change his environment.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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Television is the third parent.
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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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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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