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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
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