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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)
Source: Webster’s Quotations, Facts & Phrases
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Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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(His Vision) To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
 
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