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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
Architect
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Visual Artist
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Milton
Massachusetts
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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