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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
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles
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