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One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
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Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
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Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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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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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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