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R. Buckminster  Quotes
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

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American Inventor
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

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ActivismAdaptionChange
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

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American Inventor
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

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Design
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Don’t fight forces, use them.

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Architecture
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The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

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CommunicationPeaceRace
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.

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LifePearls-Of-WisdomTruth
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their...

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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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Devil
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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?

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Existential-RisksHumanityInspirational
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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Dictators And Dictatorship
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and...

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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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Education
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Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that “unity is plural and at minimum two” – the complementary but...

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HumanityProgress
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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Misfortunes
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

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Here is God’s purpose — for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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American InventorGod
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.

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HumanitarianismJoyProgress
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential – for as at present used, or designed, the world’s resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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Gold
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

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CreativityGenius
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

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American Inventor
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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.

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Education
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable,...

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Growth
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

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LearnLearningTeach
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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American Inventor
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Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a...

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DogmaUncertainty
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I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

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Education
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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Human-Nature
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The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

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Universe
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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American Inventor
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God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

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Christian
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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

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Education
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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Management
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I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I...

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ConfidenceHard-WorkOptimism
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The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.

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Inspirational
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

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Leadership
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty…….. but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

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Art
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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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Tradition
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

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InspirationalIntegritySuccess
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

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IntelligenceMankindStupidity
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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History And Historians
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Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing...

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InspirationalMotivational
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God is a verb, not a noun.

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American Inventor
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I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along...

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DesignProcessQuality
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

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EnvironmentPollutionResources
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