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Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Source: http://www.bfi.org/
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.  Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Source: Synergetics
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My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world.  Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies?  It's a very touch & go question.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?"

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Source: The Year 2000
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do...How would I be? What would I do?

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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