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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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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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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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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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Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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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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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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