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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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