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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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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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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
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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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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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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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
R. Buckminster Fuller