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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character -
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
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You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by the computer.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James MellerRichard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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