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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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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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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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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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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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Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
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Don't change the man. Change his environment.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
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Television is the third parent.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.
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The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.
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