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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.
Buckminster Fuller: starting with the universe (2008)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what I can do for myself.
Speech 2e inaugural (1973) -
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Man knows so much and does so little.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
A Distant Mirror -
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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