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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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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
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Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
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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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Television is the third parent.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
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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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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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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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.
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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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