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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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