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I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
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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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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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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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles
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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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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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I look for what needs to be done
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War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
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