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Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
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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Massachusetts
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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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...doing more with less.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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You either make sense or you make money.
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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
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Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
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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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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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