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Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
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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Milton
Massachusetts
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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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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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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