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• Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

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• I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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• Man knows so much and does so little.

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• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

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• Tension is the great integrity.

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• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

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• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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• The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.

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• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

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• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

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• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

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• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

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• We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

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• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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Buckminster Fuller (54)

Birth:	12th July, 1895
Death:	1st July, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architect, Author, Industrial Designer, Inventor

About

Buckminster Fuller was born in Milton, Massachusetts. He was an American neo-futuristic architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. He was the second president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968. In 1970 he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.

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