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We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often - much, much more often - it will save your life.
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We are a very, very unusual species.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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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.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
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We have the power to turn against our creators.
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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
Cosmography (1992)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
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Wealth is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the forward days of our lives.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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What is the worth of any thing,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?Learning 23 -
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
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What one fool can understand, another can.
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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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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What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
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