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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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None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
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Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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By the time you are 88 years old, you have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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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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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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... reform the environment and not man being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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