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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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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Massachusetts
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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