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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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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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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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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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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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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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Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.
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Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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