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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
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Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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