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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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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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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
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... reform the environment and not man being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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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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